We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.
Mark RavenhillThe American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.
Mark RavenhillCandide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.
Mark RavenhillI have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .
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