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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich, explores the darker side of positive thinking.
Ehrenreich finds a pattern in many aspects of life that demands mandatory optimism.
Embedded in this is the idea that a person can change the physical world with their thoughts.
According to Ehrenreich, there are two problem with this.
Firstly, it is delusional and delusion is a mistake. She links delusions of positive psychology to the financial meltdown of...
