A lot of the social dysfunction of the US can be traced to the uncritical positivity of the culture. It’s practically illegal to be sad. Sadness is a problem to be solved with good ol’ Yankee ingenuity. Eliminated from the collective psyche like a smallpox of the soul.
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Replying to @vgr
Yeah, surprising to me how useful it's been learning to let myself be as fully sad as the experience requires
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Replying to @kylemathews
Took me years to drop bullshit notions of it being bad mental hygiene or a sign of weakness to be sad. In fact it’s a sign of weakness to knee-jerk resist sadness.
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Replying to @vgr @kylemathews
Calvinism plus Positive Mental Attitude philosophy
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Replying to @zenpundit @kylemathews
Barbara Ehrenteich had a book length version of that case, Bright-sided
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