Who all did you choose as participants in your study and did you manipulate their environments to see how they react and did they know you were manipulating their lives? How long did this go on and when will you be done writing your book?
Hello Anon.Ā
I assume you are writing about the ālive in loveā project I have some stuff about here on tumblr. IĀ havenāt done any scientific studies. It was basically dumb teenage essays about nonsense I didnāt know anything about but was trying to figure out. I used pseudo-scientific language about some random observations I made - and Iām sorry about that. I didnāt manipulate anyoneās lives or environments - thank God. It sounds like one terrible study. I will not use such bullcrap language in the future.Ā
Had I been smarter, I would have had a more structural perspective onĀ āwhy people live as they doā and I would have seen that many people are basically being forced to live in ways that they donāt like, so more powerful people - bullies with law, police, and guns - can use them as resources, either as labor, clients or renters. Exploitation is what hinders people from doing what they love.
I did finish the book years ago and it was baaaadddd. I would recommend reading something like David Graebers Debt, Utopia of Rules andĀ Bullshit JobsĀ or pretty much anything from him instead (his essay on bullying on the Baffler is amazing).Ā
Instead of inventing personal strategies for living with exploitation in ways in which it is not totally awful, we should instead just get rid of it.Ā
Self-help and personal development are in my current opinion a waste of time. Itās not us who need help, rather itās Western society that's sick. Activism has done a lot more for me than Positive Psychology.Ā
Iām sorry if you spent a lot of time reading my old bullshit. I will delete it, so others donāt go through the same.Ā
Basically, all you need to live a life you love is freedom from exploitation. I hope we all achieve that.Ā