Pull up a couch...

...Dr Lever's in the house.

OK, so there's a wide variety of random musings on this blog from GI Joe (with da kung fu grip) to catapaulting slugs into the blue yonder... but not so much of the philosophical, so for you philophiles out there, here goes... (I just made that word up; will check if it exists in a while...)

Positive thinkers.

In my everyday dealings, the last few years has seen an upsurge in the amount of daily contact made with positive thinkers. Now let's make this clear - I have nothing against positive thinkers or positive thinking, but a definite pattern has emerged in the PT phenomena...

Everyone's personality is different but these positive thinkers all seem to be so similar, like they've been tapped out of the same mould or read exactly the same book or something (is it the ad verbatim quotations that give it away?). They tend to have this "bubbly personality" which I equate with chocolate; It's OK for a little while but too much of it makes you feel sick.

So why pick on Positive thinkers?

I'm not. I'm just stating my observations. The vast majority of these PT'ers have been positive thinking for so long and where have they got? Absolutely nowhere. I've observed failing business strategies, marriages fall apart, financial situations nose-dive and general "me me me" procrastination amount to nothing. It appears that 99% of these Positive Thinkers are kidding themselves, which leads nicely on to my...

Positive Thinking Conspiracy.

If enough people in the world get around to positive thinking then it will allow many others to get away with murder. You see, a lot of positive thinking is to do with the "well, it could be worse" attitude which doesn't deal directly with matters, it's quite simply "making the best out of a bad situation". Most PT is more about dealing with the effect than the cause.

A lot of innocent people have died in wars abroad, but rest assured, at least they've got democracy; That's some comfort to the relatives of the dead and the orphaned children of murdered parents.

So, you see, it's OK, it could be a lot worse :D

The Survivor Theory.

Let me just unravel this web I have woven... Positive Thinking is good for people who are down or ill. Victims of terrible ailments can be saved from oblivion by positive thoughts.

And yet, for the general healthy populace there are so many positive thinkers that simply achieve neutrality from their positive thinking; those that get nowhere in their careers, that never learn anything new, those that have squandered millions of dollars only to keep the business alive rather than advance it... these are the survivors, the negative thinkers that would not otherwise survive without positive thinking...

Running to stand still, treading water...

(I've told myself a million times to stop using clichés)

Encore, encore

"It has been suggested in some quarters, that this is not enough"

Yeah, Joe, we need positive action not just positive thinking...

"Get up and Scream"

Your turn ;)

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BTW The nearest word is Philophylla n : leaf miners E.g. of the genus Philophylla as in Philophylla heraclei or Celery Fly, don't ya know...!