Smile or Die: The Perils of Positive Psychology

Amer­i­cans are indeed hard­wired for opti­mism and this won­der­ful­ly illus­trat­ed video is the best exam­ple. When she says real­ism she is say­ing “a good mix­ture of pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive that mir­rors what we have around”, that’s to say, a bal­anced pos­i­tive mind­set and so we are at the begin­ning again. She just advo­cates a more mean­ing­ful pos­i­tive atti­tude and she appar­ent­ly crit­i­cizes “pos­i­tivism” but in fact rein­forces its argu­ments. When you are hard­wired you don’t know that you are like that, you just show your wires when­ev­er you speak and she (this site too) just does so. So far, only a few dares to dis­card any pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive label on their lives and just try to be with­out adjec­tives.

@czander Wow, and I thought I was cyn­i­cal. The link was a good read.

I agree with most of it except the part about unions. This quote explains it best.

“The key to a monop­oly is to get in the mid­dle of an inter­sec­tion and charge rent.” — Newt Gin­grich

Unions are just a form of monop­oly dri­ven by employ­ee inter­ests instead of employ­er inter­ests.