Why "Self-Help" may have been founded to Condemn, not Help

The self-help industry often been attributed as a source of inspiration and useful principle for many people. But I have raised problems about it, that it is sometimes being used to condemn people to the point of harming them at times. That's what I theorized in my article about The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

Napoleon Hill, writer of many 'self-help' books;
but was this part of an industrialist plot to quell worker dissent?

The Secret itself is a refurbishing of what is often called MagicalVoluntarism, the belief that as long as people will for something strongly enough, it will be magically be 100% certain success for them, whether they take action or not. In other words, they will get what they want and life will be easy as long as they want it hard enough ("focus your mind" or "work hard enough"). This actually panders to people with sense of entitlement and may actually have the effect of making people more mendicant, covetous and arrogant rather than responsible.

True Positive Thinking and The (so-called) Secret

Because I wrote in other blogs that people should be careful about positive thinking, they might assume that I am against it. No; I am for proper positive thinking. I believe true positive thinking is good and essential for life. The problem is that many questionable beliefs and ideas have corrupted the idea of positive thinking.