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Thursday 08 November 2012

A while ago I read an article about new research results (he's too silly when I linked it) cause may be known upon caffeine better positive connotation words. (It was by chance that I took like only three days earlier from a serious book for behavioral research.)

Well, caffeine euphoria. Anyway, most of his contemporaries.

I wonder, however (the article author was not that far, he doubted not), whether it would be good if you positively Expressed striking perceives as normal.

I see (if the observation is) a real risk of easier manipulation.

The nowadays so vaunted positive thinking may be useful for sellers, entertainers and politicians; Scientists and philosophers I advise as to considerably more caution.

Complete objectivity is already a virtually impossible 'thing; which is not better by just one sees even more as one pleases. it's so already the case of the Fallen (more ...)

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"The damage the good is the most harmful harm"

Monday, February 23, 2009

Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra. This parable I have only now - I hope at least half - understood in light of the financial crisis.

"Think positive" - think well, was the basis of the whole pyramid scheme, which is now in the result carries us into the economic decline. The devil himself has invented the most optimistic, pick up the thereat have stumbled, fallen souls more easily. The Optimist is the backers of even the most perverse power, the optimist, the Illusionist, the willing followers. The little soul who looks even before approaching the abyss impulsive the smallest cliff happy.

"I think basically once positive" - told a mother of three, when I spoke to the financial crisis and the possible consequences of those. Probably thinks such a chicken still positive when the hunger is already considered as a permanent guest in the house. Or, then, all at once, the little hen feels betrayed by all sides, if no positive thinking with empty stomachs more help. These are the dolls. Such people turning to loans to the rest of substance. The optimists are the nursery bed for the money cheat. Therefore, their thinking is offered to us as a model in advertising and media. Optimists are crap. Most psychotherapists are therefore also crap. (more ...)

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