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Positivity is a bit overrated if you ask me.
In some go-getter, do-well, big-business corporate new competence sort of way, it has really seeped deep down into our current western paradigm and sees itself manifested into a kind of ignorant isolationism. People are so obsessed with being happy and being individuals anymore that they fail to see all the blight in the world merely because it is unpleasant to their indoctrinated sensibilities and does not conform to their archetype of what 'beauty' might just be in all of its supreme subjectivity. As far as I know, it has always been human nature to force ones ideals and "culture" upon others, even when doing so quite passively, we must judge others only by our own individual prejudices, whatever they might be.
Maybe it's just me, but the times I was most miserable in my life were also some of the most memorable. Positive thinking versus negative thinking most certainly has its time and place, and this is not to downplay the power of having a positive attitude and having a sort of confident awareness of one's abilities, but most people I have met who preach things like 'positive thinking' as a sort of dogma are really quite sad and only teach others to put their problems to the side or to bottle them up and not really deal with the ugliness that balances life as we know it.
So don't just be positive. And don't just live in negativity, either. Just be.
Tijs Verwest
lolololol, you cunts
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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