Self Improvement Nonsense, Behaviour and Art

                                                                               
                                    Modern Thinking

Phaeton, 

William Hilton (1786-1839)

Photo Credit: Manchester Art Gallery [CC BY-NC-SA]

Svend Brinkmann, professor of psychology and qualitative methods at Aalborg University, Denmark, suggests, in his book Stand Firm, you throw away the self-improvement books, embrace negativity and doubt and stand firm against the tyranny of positivity. The obsession with introspection and self-analysis risks stress, depression and, at worst, turns us into mini psychopaths.
                                                  
                                                          (The Times, 2019)

   Hurrah! Common sense rules in one small part of the world

                                                
Art
   
A 16-year-old commented on the behaviour of the crowd milling around a painting of Picasso at the New York Museum of Modern Art. “Why take photos of the painting rather than look at the painting itself?”
As her father noted, "Capturing the experience has become more important than the experience itself."

(The Observer, 2019)

Perhaps that is why there is now a Museum of Selfies. Where? On Holywood Boulevard, of course.