Self Help Books Are The Bane Of Humanity

Breaking News! Theshigen Navalingam hates Self Help books! I absolutely loathe self help books with a burning passion. Why the hate? The self help genre is like a parasite that feeds on the insecurities of the people and the feeble minded. It is an abomination of written words... words that don't actually tell you anything new, but people just seem addicted to it.

I attribute it to the need, the desire, the hunger for positive self reinforcement. We all love being told how special we are(I have an issue with this, but I won't go on a rant about that in this blog post), how much god loves us, or how lovely we are, intelligent, smart, beautiful, talented, gifted and the verbiage assault goes on and on. You don't need a book to tell you this, just talk to a friend. Yeah, talk, communicate with others, don't expect magic solutions from these books.

Because the only thing these books lack is a solution to anything. Suggestions are clichéd and you've probably heard them like a million times but yet... they always get to you don't they? We are suckers for the positivity drug. Hopelessly addicted, unless of course, you decide to open your eyes and see the futility and lameness in the words of these so called elucidating book genre.

Sure, they might be creative in the way they present these oft repeated points, but heck... Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings is creative as well! Why don't people read something with more depth to it? Stop supporting a rubbish dump, shelf space wasting category of books? And all you self help book writers... you are vampires, blood suckers feeding on the vulnerable to make a quick buck. Have a heart and write something worthwhile.

Rant out...

PS: I hate the self help genre more than romance novels... I DO NOT read romance novels(which I think are tripe as well, but at least they aren't claiming to be miracle drugs)

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