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Seligman says we can teach ourselves cognitive thinking to counter the "learned helplessness" in the face of adversity that has led to an "epidemic of depression". Perhaps those of us wishing to feel positive need to find a William Godwin for inspiration. The anarchist philosopher held that calm reason would come to replace all violence and force, and that the mind could eventually make matter subservient to it. Nice idea, that.