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forwardslash  ·  4264 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Smile or Die - RSAnimates a scathing critique of the culture of forced positivity

It's hard to not be skeptical of her when she starts out with, "Why are all these straw-men so unreasonable?!" I've never heard anyone try to explain effects of positive thinking in terms of magnetic or quantum mechanical forces or whatever. Whenever I've heard about positive thinking it has been on how it affects your own body. Our minds have amazing ways of physically changing our body, and as social creatures our behaviour can affect those around us.





user-inactivated  ·  4264 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I've never heard anyone try to explain effects of positive thinking in terms of magnetic

Mesmer.

    or quantum mechanical forces or whatever.

Read and weep. (The blurb that is, not the book itself.)

symmetry  ·  4263 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As a young teen I worked for a chiropractor who also practiced what he called homeopathy/energy medicine. I had no understanding of science then, but thinking back on it, it's astonishing to see the number of white, middle-aged women who play into this type of thing. It sounds scientific, so it must be true.

JTHipster  ·  4264 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Who knew my thoughts were energy vibrations and not electrochemical interactions between cells! Hey wait, what the fuck is an energy vibration? Do they mean electromagnetic waves? Is it heat?

Do I think with heat?

user-inactivated  ·  4264 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They're just viiibes, dude. You think with viiiiibes.

forwardslash  ·  4264 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh god, why.