Everybody's trying to find status, belonging, being somebody special - something that boosts their ego, essentially. It reminds me of C. S. Lewis's essay "The

Everybody's trying to find status, belonging, being somebody special - something that boosts their ego, essentially. It reminds me of C. S. Lewis's essay "The Inner Ring" (at https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ ).