Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America

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People like Mary Baker Eddy literally sick you know with the kind of invalidism was an epidemic in America and they and I you know had I think the independence of mind to say hey you know let's not think that way anymore. Maybe God doesn't hate us. You know maybe it may be that there are opportunities in everything and that is so I'm very sympathetic to the origins of this rough. Well the interview Emerson was another of this book William James to one of extent. But in the 20th century it sort of begins to fuse with all of this. These get rich quick schemes and medical quackery and which certainly was involved in the 1900 too. But I was fascinated by that history. Yes.
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Harvard Book Store
Series
WGBH Forum Network
Program
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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Journalist and activist Barbara Ehrenreich explains the perils of the Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.Americans have a singular capacity for glossing over hardships with exhortations to "look on the bright side." The oft-prescribed power of positive thinking is certainly capable of altering our outlooks, but as Ehrenreich argues in her new book, this is not entirely for the better. In fact, it can lead to individual self-blame and institutional disregard for possible negative outcomes (like a national housing crisis). This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best--poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
Date
2009-10-15
Topics
Social Issues
Subjects
Business & Economics; Culture & Identity
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:01:09
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Distributor: WGBH
Speaker2: Ehrenreich, Barbara
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WGBH
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Chicago: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America,” 2009-10-15, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 16, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-bn9x05xd05.
MLA: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America.” 2009-10-15. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 16, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-bn9x05xd05>.
APA: Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-bn9x05xd05