I mean, I'm not a tell-all lifestyle blogger, so of course my online life is going to look pretty one-dimensional. This is my research subject and it fascinates me. I don't think the fascination it exerts is *entirely* dissimilar from that it exerts on the people who become believers... there's a sense in which we both end up falling dow…
I mean, I'm not a tell-all lifestyle blogger, so of course my online life is going to look pretty one-dimensional. This is my research subject and it fascinates me. I don't think the fascination it exerts is *entirely* dissimilar from that it exerts on the people who become believers... there's a sense in which we both end up falling down the rabbithole. But there's a huge difference between "I need to upend my life for this" and "I have to understand this." I've always had strong "I have to understand this" tendencies that migrate from subject to subject. But it's one part of my life and it's the part I share online with strangers. I dont have any plans to share the rest.
I mean, I'm not a tell-all lifestyle blogger, so of course my online life is going to look pretty one-dimensional. This is my research subject and it fascinates me. I don't think the fascination it exerts is *entirely* dissimilar from that it exerts on the people who become believers... there's a sense in which we both end up falling down the rabbithole. But there's a huge difference between "I need to upend my life for this" and "I have to understand this." I've always had strong "I have to understand this" tendencies that migrate from subject to subject. But it's one part of my life and it's the part I share online with strangers. I dont have any plans to share the rest.
This was responding to a weird comment that the person later deleted...