What happens when sickness is mistaken for failure? And honesty for negativity?

This is the great exhaustion of having cancer or COVID or ANY kind of a fragility in a bootstrapping, science-fearing, positive thinking world. To the delusional go the spoils. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313186529058136070">https://twitter.com/realDonal...

Megachurch pastors and televangelists have been (rightly) criticized since the late 1980s for their uncritical promotion of the power of "positive faith" for as a bid for power.

But I would love an honest reckoning for the MANY who have allowed this narrative to go unchallenged

The number of times when I have been asked to make my cancer into a "miracle" or a "failure" (where I have lost my "battle") shows the lack of textured language in this bizarre WINNER TAKE ALL approach to the human condition.

We don& #39;t need winners. We need truth.

The performance of invulnerability is ALWAYS theater.

But as a Stage IV cancer patient and a historian of positive thinking, may I joyfully remind you that "fake it till you make it" is neither Christian, presidential, or medically wise.

Life is a chronic condition.

And in case you want both research and anger about this overly causal way of thinking, you may see it reflected here in this published rage spiral. https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Happens-Reason-Other-Loved/dp/0399592083/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HEYE4WOOM9MI&dchild=1&keywords=everything+happens+for+a+reason+kate+bowler&qid=1601931138&sprefix=everything+happens%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-1">https://www.amazon.com/Everythin...