Why Psychology Hasn't Had a Big New Idea in Decades

2 paulpauper 1 5/22/2025, 9:55:34 PM theseedsofscience.pub ↗

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WarOnPrivacy · 12h ago
I like psychology because I have one and I can just sit and play with it and from doing that, I learn stuff.

Like I learned how high-profile bad behaviors are reliably tied to feelings of helplessness.

I learned how my astoundingly toxic (I mean that with all love dear) ex is more trapped than not. At the least, there is no good choice she can make today that would result in her being better tomorrow - or next year.

After 25yr I can climb into her head and she is so far down that road, I couldn't find my way back if I had A-Games every day.

I learned that people do because they can and don't because they can't. It simply is and being frustrated with it is silly.

Anyway, from that and life, I worked out that a sea change in character generally takes a decade, Glob willing and unrisen creeks.

What I have not worked out is this.

    No one anywhere wants to clean their own house.
It's like entropy. It captures and dominates ~every human endeavor eventually. But I don't know why.