Ghost1y

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Ghost1y239 karma

Hey Spike. I took an African-American Lit class last year at school and we had a great teacher, which really brought the material to life. As an extra credit opportunity we could watch Bamboozled and write an essay response to it for credit. I don't really have a question, and I'm sure you won't see it, but that film really shook me. It was incredible how on one level, everything seemed so absurd, and part of me thought "That'd never happen in real life," yet part of me wondered how far apart it was from real life. It really stood out to me and was very thought provoking, so I thank you.

Ghost1y83 karma

Oh my god Spike, I never thought you'd see this. You easily made my day.

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Robert Greene AMA I only recently started reading your work (actually, it was after I saw your last AMA) and since then have read your entire work. I can't count how many times it's helped me recognize power moves (which are especially prominent in high school) and the like and be able to react appropriately. I do have a few questions having read all of your books:

  1. You've covered most of the realm of social dynamics with your books on power, seduction, war, and mastery. Do you have any idea what your next project(s) will be? Where do you go from here?

  2. It seems that there are contradictory strategies in your work. Do you feel that all of your strategies work together as a social machine per se, or do you feel they are applicable at different times?

  3. Do you see the decline of the PUA movement as an affirmation in your principles and a rejection of theirs as a fad, or do you see their techniques as one, single-minded use of your advice, which is becoming less effective with repetition, which goes against your advice of treating each target as unique?

  4. Do you have any advice for someone in my position, as a high school student at a select-admissions high school, which means I am daily in an environment with other very intelligent, ambitious, egotistical, and, to various degrees, megalomaniacal hormonal teenagers? Are there different laws for those thrust into a position like this at an early, inexperienced age? Which laws should I pay most attention to? What books would you suggest for someone of my age/environment?

Thanks for doing another AMA.