How Positive Thinking Can Hurt You

The False Promises of Positive Thinking (aka `Poetic Thinking`) Can Hurt You

Don’t complain, shut up, suffer and persist the foolish status quo is one of the most fatalistic and regressive mentality of our time. It is also a self-administered, self-sedating, self-sabotaging delusion, that poses a dangerous form of civilization intoxication and contamination, and they disguise it as a poetic excuse for opiated inaction by branding it as— `positive thinking`.

While positive thinking can provide the energy and hope for people to move on and move forward in harsh circumstances, more than often, it has been misused and abused as an opioid of escapism. Here are some deadly consequences and side effects on such an abuse of the false sense of positivism.

Beware of people advising you to stay away from negative or toxic people because ad populum is usually the faulty mental filter that leads you to the path of irretrievable perdition. Usually, the first few people you would put away under such advice based on sentiments would then be your parents, then the doctors. Beware what the candy man advises you on, as Socrates warned.

Delusional positivism is a modern form of delirious superstition and blind faith. The problem with delusional positivism of our society today is that we witch-hunt people who want to address the matter at hand objectively. They are conveniently dismissed as `negative` or `toxic people`. If people don’t like it…