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The Tyranny of Hope
Walk into any modern corporate office, scroll through any social media feed, or browse the aisles of your local bookstore, and you will be assaulted by the same relentless, saccharine mandate: Good vibes only. Choose happiness. Manifest your success. Look on the bright side.
We live in an era defined by a suffocating, compulsory optimism. Positivity is no longer merely an emotional state; it has been weaponized into a moral imperative and a metric of personal virtue. If you are unhappy, the modern dogma suggests, it is not because the world is inherently tragic, unjust, or absurd. It is…
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