Re:Happiness is a reward from our ancestors
by civilitty on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:38PM
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She's essentially arguing that long-term happiness is an evolved signal that someone is on the right evolutionary path. It's the emotional self-help equivalent of a prosperity gospel.
Her argument can best be illustrated by a paragraph from another article titled How I cured myself with evolutionary psychology [1]
> In order to cure my depression, I did the evolutionary psychology thing hard-core: I got married and had children. I dropped out of university. I moved to the countryside. I started to renovate and build houses and to grow food for my family.
As far as I can tell, she has no training as an evolutionary psychologist. It's self help woo woo wrapped up in barely coherent scientific jargon.
Her argument can best be illustrated by a paragraph from another article titled How I cured myself with evolutionary psychology [1]
> In order to cure my depression, I did the evolutionary psychology thing hard-core: I got married and had children. I dropped out of university. I moved to the countryside. I started to renovate and build houses and to grow food for my family.
As far as I can tell, she has no training as an evolutionary psychologist. It's self help woo woo wrapped up in barely coherent scientific jargon.
[1] https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/how-i-cured-myself-with-...