The illusion of happy in totalitarianism is only a facade. This is why drinking and drugs are so popular..it medicates the mind to the "truth" or lie one can tell themselves that you are free to move about the gilded cage.. As long as you can afford it. Stock in lockheed anyone?
Forced cheer is an institution in the commercial West. I don't doubt many of Seligman's subjects are faking it 'til they make it. It's a, if not *the*, credo of the professional-managerial class, who never met a symbol they didn't like to manipulate.
The illusion of happy in totalitarianism is only a facade. This is why drinking and drugs are so popular..it medicates the mind to the "truth" or lie one can tell themselves that you are free to move about the gilded cage.. As long as you can afford it. Stock in lockheed anyone?
Forced cheer is an institution in the commercial West. I don't doubt many of Seligman's subjects are faking it 'til they make it. It's a, if not *the*, credo of the professional-managerial class, who never met a symbol they didn't like to manipulate.