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Barbara Ehrenreich Quote

The advice that you must change your environment—for example, by eliminating negative people and news—is an admission that there may in fact be a real world out there that is utterly unaffected by our wishes. In the face of this terrifying possibility, the only positive response is to withdraw into one’s own carefully constructed world of constant approval and affirmation, nice news, and smiling people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The advice that you must change your environment—for example, by eliminating negative people and news—is an admission that there may in fact be a real world out there that is utterly unaffected by our wishes. In the face of this terrifying possibility, the only positive response is to withdraw into one’s own carefully constructed world of constant approval and affirmation, nice news, and smiling people.

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