ext_153684 ([identity profile] pungoose.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ewt 2007-03-27 09:18 pm (UTC)

"Pathologies" of Hope

The trick, as my teen hero Camus wrote, is to draw strength from the "refusal to hope, and the un­yielding evidence of a life without con­solation"

lalalalalalala I'm miserable, and you should be miserable too, or you'll have to be stupid, and if you're not miserable I'm going to compare you to George W. Bush, lalalalalala

sheesh, and people pay real money for this stuff? I particular like A fre­quently cited 1988 article arguing that positive illusions, such as unwarrant­edly high self-estimations, promote mental health has been disputed

Well, thanks! That was, like SO informative! Now I'm going to rewrite my review in a single sentence in the passive voice, with all details removed.


An occasionally cited 2007 article, arguing that hope is pathological, has been sarcastically dismissed by a large, lexically adept, waterbird

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