Las megaiglesias (y las que aspiran a ese estatus) necesitaban sustituir las bases del cristianismo por otra cosa, y la mayoría de ellas lo ha sustituido por el pensamiento positivo; no porque sea bíb...
El pensamiento positivo parece obligatorio en este mundo del cáncer de pecho, hasta el punto de que si alguien es infeliz tiene casi que disculparse,
Maybe it's low-wage work in general that has the effect of making feel like a pariah. When I watch TV over my dinner at night, I see a world in which almost everyone makes $15 an hour or more, and I'm...
Why shouldn’t our great chain of being include the other creatures with which we have shared the planet, the creatures we have martyred in service to us or driven out of their homes to make way for ou...
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life? It might be a good move to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny...
There seems to be a vicious cycle at work here, making ours not just an economy but a culture of extreme inequality. Corporate decision makers, and even some two-bit entrepreneurs like my boss at The...
That's what meaning is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.
Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real 'labor shortage,' only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. You might as we...
Positive thinking did not abolish the need for constant vigilance; it only turned that vigilance inward. Instead of worrying that one’s roof might collapse or one’s job be terminated, positive thinkin...
My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers—the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being reamed out by managers—are part of what keeps wages low. If you’re made to feel un...
My aim here was much more straightforward and objective — just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day. Besides, I've had enough unchosen encounters...
Los sacerdotes que predican el pensamiento positivo en Estados Unidos seguramente se quedarán desolados si ven que se habla de ellos en el mismo capítulo (y hasta en el mismo libro) que de los censore...
It’s not only my work—forgive the pompous phrase—that I bequeath to my survivors but all the mental and sensual pleasures that come with being a living human: sitting in the spring sunshine, feeling t...
In Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Verso, 1997), Kim Moody cites studies finding an increase in stress-related workplace injuries and illness between the mid-1980s and th...
I had discovered that writing--with whatever instrument--was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do.
Everyone, from software writer to accountant, was now subject to the same insecurities as the lonely salesman once targeted by Norman Vincent Peale.
En esta cultura del cáncer de mama que se ha generalizado todo sirve (no a propósito, seguramente) para quitarle hierro a la enfermedad y para normalizarla: quizá el diagnóstico sea desastroso, pero p...
A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children’s best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father’s first duty to his...
A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so...
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.