Yes, We All Like Stuff that Mirrors Our Own Opinion. Here It Is in Spades!

"Isn’t positive thinking better than negative thinking? All other things being equal, sure, but the alternative to being either an optimist or a pessimist is to be a realist. “Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things ‘as they are,’ or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions,” Ehrenreich concludes. “What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.”

 Here's the link to the whole article from Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=kool-aid-psychology&page=2

Realistic thinking is the way to delve in 2012!