Getting over the toxic culture of 'positive thinking'
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 17:31 I know that I’ve had a gutful of it (she said, sitting there at the keyboard with a freshly made martini. Natacha’s first attempt at making one…and with my gentle guidance, it’s superb).
Maybe you’re one of the few out there harboring some suspicions - but dare not express them openly - that perhaps the deluge of motivation that we’ve been subjected to over the last few decades is just horseshit.
My brilliant and perceptive step-daughter tuned me into the new book by Barbara Ehrenreich - ‘Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America’ - that deconstructs the lie of positive thinking as it has been practiced … no, actually marketed to America in the last 50 years or so.
Positive thinking may not be the only reason we’re in the mess we’re in, but it probably did a dandy job at lubing the ‘tool’. If that’s the ‘picture’ you’re getting, good for you. You get it.
