Objective Positivism

The term ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ have been widely disguised as pretext for merely “what I like to hear” and “what I do not like to hear” in a pursuit of self-deceiving, fake ‘feel-good’ delusion. Even if our friends were to ‘positively’ tell us there is no problem, and there is no need for any improvement, but that would be a dangerous lie. Alternatively, they can sincerely tell us the truth which we do not like to hear and get labelled as ‘negative’ by us and brutally intercept our fate of going down the road of perdition, instead of remaining our false friends and watch our downfall. Which would of the two would you choose? Being negative about being negative is neither positive nor objective.

The sad part of the pop positive psychology is that it has taken the world by storm, and not many people are willing to discuss the ills of it, especially when it comes with some social penalty. We tend to disdain our most sincere and caring friends. Some of them even suffered the undeserved fate of being labelled as ‘toxic people’. We see today, there is no lack of articles advising us to junk them. It is, by no means, to say that positive psychology is an utter nostrum, but when many of those questionable advice had miseducated and misguided us of devaluing the right people, and when important details are filtered from those critical decision making processes, positive psychology becomes a perilous social superstition, especially when positivism, no matter how unsubstantiated or empty, are cherished. They continue to perpetuate a false sense of hope and crippling inaction under…