"There is a dark, insidious quality to the ideology promoted by the positive psychologists. They condemn all social critics and iconoclasts, the dissidents and individualists, for failing to surrender and seek fulfillment in the collective lowing of the corporate herd. They strangle creativity and moral autonomy. They seek to mold and shape individual human beings into a compliant collective. The primary teaching of this movement, which reflects the ideology of the corporate state, is that fulfillment is to be found in complete and total social conformity, a conformity that all totalitarian and authoritarian structures seek to impose on those they dominate."
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Chris Hedges - Empire of Illusion, Ch 4: The Illusion of Happiness (via tiredofbeingignored) (via exiledsoul)
wow. now i need to read this book.
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ahh me too!
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Barbara Ehrenreich’s book on positive thinking is better. The Hedges book is great in spots but he doesn’t tie his whole argument together very well, I think. If you want a critique of “positive psychology,” read “Bright-Sided.”
