In article <1132857520.648472.222660@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Queenie" <queenvee59@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Excellent post. The new age "positivity" people remind me of right-wing
>capitalists who berate the poor with "If you're poor, it's just because
>you're not trying hard enough". Only with the new-agers it's "if you're
>life sucks, it's because you're not being POSITIVE enough". Same basic
>types. People who have convinced themselves that THEIR good fortune
>MUST result solely from some kind of superior
>virtue/skill/knowledge/ability on their part, and that OTHER people's
>misfortunes therefore must derive solely from a corresponding LACK of
>virtue/skill/knowledge/ability.
>
>It must be very comforting to see the world in such black and white
>terms, where one is allowed to just smugly sit and do nothing for your
>fellow man except exhort them to emulate your own superior self. A lot
>of people on this message board seem to derive a lot of self-satisfied
>pleasure from it.
>
So a person's inability to succeed or be happy is someone elses fault?
