Listen to the whole interview:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/10/14/segments/142536
Barbara Ehrenreich talks about why she thinks Americas love affair with positive thinking has a negative side. Her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America traces the origins of our sunny outlook and looks at how relentless positive thinking has led to an era of what Ehrenreich calls irrational optimism.
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thethirdq 4 months ago
@o0xst "it is what it is", "everything happens for a reason", "reinvent yourself", overused and distractions from the truth.
LUVJONZ99 5 months ago
this is great that someone finally stands up and points out the queer side of "positive thinking"!
it really takes a fighter to be different to the main stream. taking from a view of actually experienced the cancer herself, babara's comments are sincere enough.
coldplot 6 months ago
why must you people always say "wow...just wow!" oh I know its cuz "it is what it is" wasn't applicable. lawl.
o0xst 1 year ago
wow......just wow
surviving chemotherapy=positive
surviving cancer=positive
being cancer free=positive
being an author=positive
book tour=positive
awareness and free support=positive
people wanting to know what you have to say=positive
being ALIVE=POSITIVE
Enjoy YOUR life instead of picking apart the lives and thoughts of others. Thanks
onesillybytch 2 years ago
Positive thinking is the same as wishful thinking.
haymaker710 2 years ago 2
Her surviving cancer wasn't all that positive.
jesuschrustpizza 2 years ago