26 April

The bullshit of positive thinking ideas. Just do it, be part of the solution etc. As if you’ll be happy by choosing to be happy, rather than happiness being the *result* of your life working well. Working well because you’re thinking it through. Often the real action we need is thinking, and discussion, to figure out what to do. We’re not a culture who likes that, we’re rich folk who are used to things just going our way. Until they don’t. We don’t like debate, argument, working hard to understand something. We like to rush about being mindlessly busy to hide that we don’t understand. Or we switch off completely and go on holiday, or get wasted. But the more you think and understand about life, the better life gets. Thinking is life.