All sunny in Brooklyn. (Ebru Yildiz)

“It’s All Such Bullshit!”

In defense of positive thinking

Hardly one in ten thousand will have the

strength of mind to ask himself seriously

and earnestly — is that true?

— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Religion: A Dialogue”

I have never thought positively by nature. Growing up in the 1970s, I used to suffer bouts of stomach…