Why Positivity Culture is A Problem

Rachel Wayne
4 min readJun 4, 2018

Positivity culture is the set of books, sayings, bumper stickers, and bumper sticker sayings that encourage limitless positive thought and selfless action as the key to a happy life. Sounds great, right?

Well, as the adage goes, life sucks. Life’s a bitch. And pretending that the negative doesn’t exist is living in delusion. But moreover, focusing on the positive doesn’t make you happy. Believe me…

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Rachel Wayne

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