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> People are unwilling to hear this: This was a problem well before the pandemic

This is likely the biggest problem we face right now. People don't care or don't want to hear anything "negative". We call it toxic positivity.



>toxic positivity

I dont know how big of a driver this is tbh. It seems more that a lot of people committed (publicly) to opinions and are unwilling to even consider to have incomplete, or even wrong views. While in practice the overlap to toxic positivity is likely large, i think it misses that the cause is likely emotional/ego driven. So that people arent so much attached to positive narratives but their narratives?

Or what do you think the causes are?

edit: Never mind, should have just googled for toxic positivity. Thanks for the term!




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