When I started to expose a new age conman, his coconspirators (they seem like they’re all in a big secretive cult to me) would send me messages trying to shame me into silence through demanding that I become more “positive”. I went on the positivity group on Reddit and all these miserable sounding people were telling each other to be positive. If I told my father in my youth that I was fed up with all the abuse, he’d tell me to be positive.