Smile or die
how positive thinking fooled America and the world
av Barbara Ehrenreich (forfatter).
Granta 2010 Heftet
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This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer, and found herself surrounded by pink ribbons and bunny rabbits and platitudes. She balked at the way her anger and sadness about having the disease were seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals and other sufferers. In her droll and incisive analysis of the cult of cheerfulness, Ehrenreich also ranges across contemporary religion, business and the economy, arguing, for example, that undue optimism and a fear of giving bad news sowed the seeds for the current banking crisis. She argues passionately that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. Rigorous, insightful and bracing as always, and also incredibly funny, "Happy Face" uncovers the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation.
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This book explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer, and found herself surrounded by pink ribbons and platitudes. She balked at the way her anger about having the disease was seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals and other sufferers. In her droll and incisive analysis of the cult of cheerfulness, Ehrenreich ranges across contemporary religion, business and the economy, arguing, for example, that undue optimism and a fear of giving bad news sowed the seeds for the current banking crisis. She argues passionately that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. Rigorous, insightful and bracing as always, and also incredibly funny, "Smile or Die" uncovers the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation.
Bokdetaljer
Forlag Granta
Utgivelsesår 2010
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9781847081735
EAN 9781847081735
Omtalt sted USA
Språk Engelsk
Sider 235
Utgave 1
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To complainers everywhere: Turn up the volume!
Maria siterer Smile or die av Barbara Ehrenreich (side 35)
15:22, 2. april 2010 1 har det som favoritt.
The link between the immune system, cancer,and the emotions was cobbled together somewhat imaginatively in the 1970s. It had been known for some time that extreme stress could debilitate certain aspects of the immune system. Torture a lab animal long enough, as the famous stress investigator Hans Selye did in the 1930s, and it becomes less healthy and resistant to disease. It was apparently a short leap, for many, to the conclusion that positive feelings might be the opposite to stress - capable of boosting the immune system and providing the key to health, whether the threat is a microbe or a tumor.
Aina siterer Smile or die av Barbara Ehrenreich (side 21)
19:51, 5. oktober 2010 1 har det som favoritt.
But I have never admired the "natural" or believed in the "wisdom of the body". Death is as "natural" as anything gets, and the body has always seemed to me like a retarted Siamese twin dragging along behind me, a hysteric really, dangerously overreacting, in my case, to everyday allergens and minute ingestions of sugar. I would put my faith in science, even if it meant that the dumb old body was about to be transmogrified into an evil clown - puking, trembling, swelling, surrendering significant parts, and oozing postsurgical fluids.
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