The aim of positive psychology is to increase happiness. All negative aspects of life are ignored. It imagines the world as one giant department store, where whatever we want we can buy. According to positive psychology, everyone is responsible for their own happiness. Its cult of positivity means that the afflicted have only themselves, rather than society, to blame. Positive psychology suppresses the fact that suffering is always socially mediated. It psychologizes and privatizes suffering. What really causes suffering – the social context of delusion – is left untouched. The cult of
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