Smile or Die!

August 5th, 2010 with 5 Comments

A great animated video of a talk by Barbara Ehrenreich talking about mandatory positive thinking.  The guys at RSanimate are talented indeed! Thanks also goes out to Michel Fortin for tweeting me this link.

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Have You Been Bright-Sided?

May 27th, 2010 with 4 Comments

An interesting interview from Barbara Ehrenriech. I loved her book Bright-sided that deals with the culture of positive thinking.  For those of you who do not know her work, I think this interview will be a good introduction. Some key points that I wanted to expand on: 1. The empathy deficit She is right on [...]

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