Positive Thinking is utter BS!

When we chat at the bar in Cascina Bellaria I am often accused of being pessimistic because I am convinced of a totalitarian, liberticidal and in a certain sense catastrophic drift of our society. Someone urged me to adopt "positive thinking".

What I think of positive thinking is well explained in the title.

I just would like to clarify that I am not pessimistic. Indeed, I would like to point out that the way things are going and will go is not a forecast or an opinion but a simple fact. Not seeing what is happening is blindness and lack of sensitivity.

But I am not pessimistic! For me all this is a great opportunity. I've never felt so bubbly, I'm excited to face a f**king tough era. Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to aliens who believe they can avoid death and destruction while they (the double D's) are part of existence. I would like to emphasize that in a macroscopic sense, it is not what happens that we can control but how we choose to deal with it. We can choose to fear it or we can look forward to facing it and taking it as an incredible opportunity for growth and understanding.

You can train physically and mentally to face it or believe that positive thinking or stuffing yourself into believing that some new age pearls such as "everything is going to be alright" can ensure that what needs to happen does not happen.

The choice is yours!

m.m.