We're an emotionally obsessed culture. You see this in management culture too. Everything is thought to hang on people having the right attitude and the right e

We're an emotionally obsessed culture. You see this in management culture too. Everything is thought to hang on people having the right attitude and the right emotional state. I suspect that on a large scale these emotional states don't make much difference to anything (although of course they're very important on the level of individual people).