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BigSwim8334 karma

In what way did your "inventions" work? It sounds like the PUAs just moved somewhere else to avoid you.

Edit: I meant "interventions".

BigSwim85 karma

What do you think of the argument that insecure young people are just making realistic evaluations of themselves? That they're insecure because, realistically speaking, they haven't done anything worthwhile (yet). Some would say that the answer is for them to work hard and do something they can feel good about, rather than becoming okay with being useless. Jordan Peterson makes this argument pretty well.

Also, are you familiar with some of the Foucauldian criticisms of this kind of positive psychology? Mainly that it contributes to neoliberalism by causing people to "go within" as you put it, thereby ignoring external structural problems around them. This paper goes into detail: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330961637_The_Psychology_of_Neoliberalism_and_the_Neoliberalism_of_Psychology_Neoliberalism_of_Psychology. I'm curious if you have any response.

BigSwim81 karma

It what ways, if any, do you feel that the radically different government and economic structure of North Korea affects how North Koreans see the world compared to Westerners? Is their world view or sense of self different?

If you're familiar with postmodern terminology, I'm wondering what kind of subject North Korea produces.