KSMountain wrote: If we

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[quote=KSMountain]

If we keep up with the negative posts, pretty soon Jimmy Carter is gonna hear about it, he’s gonna break out the cardigan, and he’s gonna start talking about “national malaise”.

Please – don’t let it get that far.[/quote]

How the Relentless Promotion of Positive
Thinking Has Undermined America
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/143187/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_the_relentless_promotion_of_positive_thinking_has_undermined_america
Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured — it’s believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist.

Ehrenreich believes this has permeated our culture and that the refusal to acknowledge that bad things could happen is in some way responsible for the current financial crisis.