Barbara Ehrenreich

gave an interview with Robert McChesney about the pernicious "happy talk" crap of "positive thinking," which is nothing more than Horatio Alger crossed with New Age psychobabble.

The audio interview is here.

I will probably get her book. Being a realist isn't being "negative."

Misc

Now that Michael Jackson is dead and maybe buried, sleazeball Martin Bashir, whose "documentary" of MJ put the late singer in the worst light possible by insinuating he did something wrong with those kids but help his own dubious career, says this:

Certainly when I made the documentary, there was a small part of that which contained a controversy concerning his relationship with other young people. But the truth is that he was never convicted of any crime, I never saw any wrongdoing myself. And last his lifestyle may have been unorthodox, I don't believe it was criminal. And I think the world has now lost the greatest entertainer it's probably ever known."

So why didn't you say anything THEN?

The comments following the article are worth reading.

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I can't STAND this New Agey "positive" psychobabble garbage which says if you just will yourself to think "positive," good things will come your way.

It's the same crap as the "prosperity gospel" which has polluted Christianity. If you're poor or "unsuccessful," it's your own damned fault.
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