'Wholesomeness' and Sincerity

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>When participants were asked to press a button and rate the control they perceived they had over whether or not a light turned on, depressed individuals made more accurate ratings of control than non-depressed individuals.[6] Among participants asked to complete a task and rate their performance without any feedback, depressed individuals made more accurate self-ratings than non-depressed individuals.[7][8][9][10] For participants asked to complete a series of tasks, given feedback on their performance after each task, and who self-rated their overall performance after completing all the tasks, depressed individuals were again more likely to give an accurate self-rating than non-depressed individuals.[11][12][13][14][15][16] When asked to evaluate their performance both immediately and some time after completing a task, depressed individuals made accurate appraisals both immediately before and after time had passed.[17]

>In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the brain, depressed patients were shown to be more accurate in their causal attributions of positive and negative social events than non-depressed participants who demonstrated a positive bias.[18] This difference was also reflected in the differential activation of the fronto-temporal network, higher activation for non self-serving attributions in non-depressed participants and for self-serving attributions in depressed patients, and reduced coupling of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex seed region and the limbic areas when depressed patients made self-serving attributions.

tl;dr Depressives have a more accurate grasp on reality

>>9855341
I never denied that desu

Unironically Winnie the Pooh. It's an absolutely beautiful work. However, I think you might have to understand that a lot of the wholesome stuff is going to feel childish. I also think that's part of the point of wholesome, relaxing, or otherwise affirmative media, especially books--to be childish.

>>9855341
OP just wants some happy reading.

>>9855366
I understand that it might mostly be childish, but there are ways it can be more mature, a lot of Ben Montero's comics have a dark theme behind, but this give out the 'wholesome' feeling. Calvin and Hobbes sometimes has that feeling too, and it clearly isn't that childish. Maybe most positive medie is evoking simpler times as if problems aren't really that big when we put them in perspective, and everyone can relate simpler times to childhood, which doesn't mean something is childish.

Also, do you mean Winnie the Pooh as the cartoon or the books?

We've tricked ourselves into thinking depression, victimization and suffering are signifiers of insight and depth, when really they're only an avenue to such things /if/ they are overcome.

Read some Tolkien, that guy saw some of the most horrific shit anyone could imagin, but his work beams with positive inspiration.

>>9855414
Tolkien's works as a whole is about 3000 pages of carefully constructed mono no aware, even if there are some cheerful excerpts

>>9855325
That's exactly why I read fantasy. I can't stand this depressing shit that people talk about all the time. I want to have some fun too. And I do.

>implying the 'world' is any of that
Letzter Mensch, stop deluding yourself.
>>9855341
Reality doesn't exist, ideologue.

>>9855325
that image is adorable

>>9856679
Check out Ben Montero on fb if you want to see an image like that ever so often, he makes me smile on the inside.