Our society values blind optimism.
October 17, 2014 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2014 at 10:57 am by MusicLovingAtheist.)
People often have this attitude where they encourage you not to be an optimist and make empty statements that life is meaningful. You might as well put a sock on your hand and call it mr.happy and just keep telling me that shit over and over. No matter how much you believe that life is meaningful, that doesn't make it true. "No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randy
This kind of optimism isn't logical. It's because our society values putting on a happy face. Anyone who isn't blind can see the way that when someone expresses hatred, discontent, hopelessness, people get intolerant and impatient. People say you're immature or a loser. I know why. It's because that's how they're raised to think. Most people just copy what everyone else around them is doing. People value norms and values of society, usually no matter what they are. Everyone believes in god because other people tell them to and everyone else is doing it. It's seriously just a way of controlling people. So everyone acts in the image of those around them. What do we have? A blindly optimistic society that ignores those with problems and is only concerned with continuing the charade.
I wish i still had this video that they showed us in sociology class where they had a clown and a some unhappy people in the work place. It told about how people think that if you pretend to be happy that you will just become happy. I really wish I could get more ideas from that video because I think it goes along the lines of what I am talking about here. Does anyone feel that keeping an optimistic attitude is every a good idea? I think optimism is just a way of trying to ignore the reality of a situation and hoping it will go away.
This kind of optimism isn't logical. It's because our society values putting on a happy face. Anyone who isn't blind can see the way that when someone expresses hatred, discontent, hopelessness, people get intolerant and impatient. People say you're immature or a loser. I know why. It's because that's how they're raised to think. Most people just copy what everyone else around them is doing. People value norms and values of society, usually no matter what they are. Everyone believes in god because other people tell them to and everyone else is doing it. It's seriously just a way of controlling people. So everyone acts in the image of those around them. What do we have? A blindly optimistic society that ignores those with problems and is only concerned with continuing the charade.
I wish i still had this video that they showed us in sociology class where they had a clown and a some unhappy people in the work place. It told about how people think that if you pretend to be happy that you will just become happy. I really wish I could get more ideas from that video because I think it goes along the lines of what I am talking about here. Does anyone feel that keeping an optimistic attitude is every a good idea? I think optimism is just a way of trying to ignore the reality of a situation and hoping it will go away.
