399 - Love Won't Make You Happy with Carrie Jenkins
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
00:00
Are You Suffering? Is It All Your Own Fault?
I think what you're touching on about positive emotions being weighed a little bit too heavily in a lot of Western Northwestern cultures it does strike me that on the underside of that is sort of yeah this idea that like suffering instead of suffering just being a part of life that suffering is a failure of some kind. If we only look at the individualistic level it's sort of like trying to understand why some people are poor by just looking at how hard they work and not the social circumstances that they find themselves in, he says. "The exact same kind of condition should be taken into account"
Transcript
Play full episode
