RSA Animate - Smile or Die

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

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[GengisTV]

Hi,

can someone please tell me how i can have a video made in this format??

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[theRSAorg]

@GengisTV Contact Cognitive Media, please go via the contact form on their website.

[MrChadBoner]

@haz464 It's like you're just parroting stock, by-the-book internet insults now, because you want to save face or something and "win" some imaginary argument that exists only in your head. I know you're anonymous and all online, but even so, don't you feel even a tiny bit embarrassed for all your dumb posts?

[MrChadBoner]

@haz464 You must be some sort of Grade-A idiot. The original commenter didn't know what the "2006 Tsunami" was in reference to. I obliged an answer. There's no controversy to argue over. Did your mom take thalidomide when she was pregnant with you, "bro"?

[144jr144]

Some good points. However, the idea that the "invisible hand" is inherently benevolent is just as delusional as the idea that collective interventionism (like communism) is inherently benevolent.

[TiestMD]

waahhh... jadi lebih semangat nih setelah liat video ini... ^.^

terimakasih....

[whicheverwayable]

She has some very good points but I question aspects of what she says. She definitely is a skilled writer but uses this to cherry pick and manipulate many of the facts. The chapter on positive psychology is one example, it was terribly inaccurate. It’s a shame really because a lot of what she has to say is important but she is no expert in scientific writing.

[autompd]

The SECRET or it's source doesn't say to just sit and think without doing. You need a purpose and go for it! Idol wishes have no power. I don't know to many people that are attracted to negative people other than those that want to remain negative. Of course it's not magnetism because opposites attract!

[annieB5575]

I dont agree with her analysis of wall street. People didnt want to hear that wall street was going to crash because they were making money that why those people were fired, Not because they were being negative!

[DaftAida]

Positive thinking is no more than psychopathic authenticity which does not feel empathy or connection between desire, action and consequences beyond the profit margin; the harder they squeeze, the larger the hype. Most people are burnt out working for psychopaths, for literally nothing. Then they're accused of lacking motivation, drive, ambition ...when actually, seeing clearly determines that there is no 'bright side' when being spat out of the machine to languish in the gutter.

[DaftAida]

Excellent observation and delivery. Yes, it's been very effective in tyrannical states no less the USA when those ghastly Calvenists and Puritons deployed merciless misery on the kidnapped and enslaved British poor and dissident, in the name of obedience to god and his ordained 'servants'. Then in the 1800s, the gospel of positive thinking was preached from town to town as the American dream was instilled to produce eager, obedient slaves who worked for the promise of rewards ordained by god.

[racingracing]

Positiveness has nothing to do with ignorance, laziness, pessimism, personal stagnation, and lack of action. Question and research everything, and prove it by TAKING ACTION YOURSELF. Be yourself the committed and honest scientist, and see TRUE concrete results. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. As Steve Jobs once said. ☼

[JuliaB1955]

Amen, amen, amen!

[ckpeltomaa]

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