PM

  • Social exclusion
  • Depression is uncontrollable
  • Racial discrimination, like birth lottery
  • Some people have more friends than others - humans are social animals
  • Support system gone during times people aren’t positive
  • Cycle of isolation - if you can’t be positive for others, tends to not go out with people

  • Imposter syndrome - society oppression

  • Politics
  • Complacency
  • Never perfect social justice - never over celebrating minor victories (eg liberals don’t vote in 2010)
  • Political movement out of touch - because these people are ones who aren’t optimistic

LO

  • Only choice for minorities to uplift self
  • The kids are told they will never succeed
  • Idea of hope - you can surpass the factors regardless of society stopping to you

  • People motivated regardless of being pushed down

  • More relatable people who succeed for the others

  • They told that you can also succeed

  • Keep AA in the fight

  • Best form of change for government

  • Even if individuals don’t succeed
  • Happiness from the comfort and endeavour
  • Derive happiness from things you have

DPM

  • Positivity good if there’s pragmatism

  • Media narrative - ignore socioeconomic status
  • Better to have realistic goals

  • Blind optimism - relies life to fix self, ignore what could go wrong

  • People didn’t criticise Obama’s politics because everyone sees him as a positive character

  • Easier to teach people to be pragmatic

  • People are rational - teach people to be skeptic and so better to teach everyone to be careful

  • Women and minorities
  • Everyone told to cheer up despite of them being vulnerable
  • Takes away the difficulty from their life and choices
  • Deny structural oppression
  • Norms dictated by more fortunate ones
  • Fight against inequality

DLO

  • Better to tell yourself life will be better

  • Optimism makes you more rational

  • Fake it to make it

  • At least hope that you can be happy

  • Comfort can only exist in positivity

  • No alternatives, result in destructive behaviours

  • Social movement
  • No other way to fight their oppression

  • People won’t lose opportunities to go protests if - they don’t think they can make that change

  • Change how you perceive others
  • People give opportunities if they see potential

MOG

  • If failure assured, blame passed to system
  • TS, blame self because you weren’t positive enough
  • Harm self because they’re at fault - so shouldn’t put pressure on them

  • Victim of the system

  • Positivism is at fault for people blaming why the poor are poor
  • We internalise problems
  • Rationalise and angry at the system

  • Anger builds up and keeps on the fight

  • Their side - their happiness is because they haven’t accessed the other happiness
  • Taking away other opportunities

MOO

  • Better prepared for failure if can see silver lining

  • At least you tried - sympathy in endeavours

  • Anger makes you irrational

  • Positivity and rationality

  • Less positivity - you less likely to come out and be pragmatic

  • Open to new moralities

  • Teach individuals to reform

  • Individual perspective
  • Plays more safe because can’t be positive and optimistic
  • Not afraid of repression