A Nation That Won't Be Fooled Again—Betrayed by Washington and Wall Street, We Find It Hard To Accept Good NewsIt's good to know I'm not alone in my view of rampant negativity.
In a Wall Street Journal piece on August 12, David Wiedner rips into the "knee-jerk hotheads" who twist straightforward economic data into partisan, spiteful propaganda.
In his article "A Nation That Won't Be Fooled Again—Betrayed by Washington and Wall Street, We Find It Hard To Accept Good News," he passionately demonstrates how we simply can't seem to view things positively right now. Perhaps his best line: It's one thing to call the glass half empty, but these days we deny the existence of tableware.
I'm not living in a vacuum; things are tough and people have been hit hard. Believe me, I'm as aware—if not much, much more aware—of this than most people. But at some point, you would think, people should start to realize what they are doing to themselves by denying . . . the tableware.
Fact: You focus on the negative, you perpetuate the negative.
Look*, do I think that everyone is equally capable of being a glass-half-full person? Absolutely not. But those who see only the negative, even when presented with the positive, infect themselves and all those with whom they interact.
Maybe that's the essential message here: Remember that you're not in a vacuum either. Everything you say can and will be used . . . whether you want that to be the case or not.
We're all in this together. Corny, I know, but guess what?
*(Notice how Obama-speak has filtered in . . . even here? He starts every other unscripted line with "Look, we've got to . . . " Check yourself; see how many times you start sentences this way today.)
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