Always remember that no matter how difficult things get, no matter how sick you are, no matter how broke you are, no matter how mentally unwell you are, no matter how utterly and totally exhausted the many challenges of life make you, there will always be someone there to help...well, thats not true actually. In fact, it is way more likely that you will be left to suffer alone in silence. But there will always be some snarky, self-righteous individual standing there as you slowly rot away that instructs you to stay positive. I have spoken on the dangers of the positivity movement before, how it is one of these quick fix cottage industries that teaches us that we can simply ignore the suffering of others by telling them to be happy. I have even gone in detail on how this positivity movement, like all online movements, is simply an industry there to sell you things, whether that be therapy sites like better help or incense or meditation guides or gurus or yoga classes. Nothing in America is ever promoted unless it can make money, and the positivity folks, better known as the self help industry, are raking in the dough. According to statistics the various self help gurus are pulling in over twelve billion dollars a year after seeing a 75% surge in social media influencers. Now, I don't know about you, but when rich folks instruct me that I should change my mindset, the first thing I think is, well it would be a whole lot easier to do that if I had millions of dollars to spare like you buddy. The second thing that comes to mind is, gee, instead of blathering about how negative I am, why don't you spread some of your wealth around and feed or house some folks, and, you know, maybe leave the camera at home this time instead of using such acts to make even more money by posting them online. Of course, that will never happen because self help is really just a term for self wealth. Think about it, if everyone really did get heled by these folks, well, they would no longer be able to charge you for positive affirmations, now would they. No one is going to put themselves out of work. They are not here to solve problems. They are here to prolong them, and maybe even make them a bit worse. The concept of American self help really took off in 1859 when a man by the name of Samuel Smiles wrote a book entitled Self Hel and he had some very interesting views. Smiles once wrote in a letter to his son, Snobbism is not confined to toadying of the rich, but is quite as often displayed in the toadying of the poor... Now that the "masses" exercise political power, there is a growing tendency to fawn upon them, flatter them, speak nothing but smooth words to them. They are credited with virtues they themselves know they do not possess. To win their favour sympathy is often pretended for views, the carrying out of which is known to be hopeless. The popular agitator must please whom he addresses, and it is always highly gratifying to our self-love to be told that someone else is to blame for what we suffer. So it rarely occurs to these orators to suggest that those whom they address are themselves to blame for what they suffer... Did you get that last part. It is your fault that you are suffering my dear boy. You are responsible for your own pain and therefore must take ownership of it. You cannot blame the corrupt politician. That would be gauche. No, you must blame yourself, not the society that is designed for you to fail. So much of this prissy little movement is just finding ways to make you take the blame for wrong that has been done to you that it is almost comical, were it not so blatantly apathetic and rude. I mean, anyone who uses the term the masses in such a negative way is obviously not the one you should be listening to. For centuries now, dictators and tyrants have used words like the masses to essentially shame those beneath them, not to elevate folks above them. We can't take this seriously. It is time to be less positive.
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