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JungKim Posted 9 years ago
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popular psychology is having none of that

This is an excerpt from a book titled "Psychobabble: Exploding the myths of the self-help generation":

The underlying imperative behind popular psychology is the need for constant change. By teaching us to structure our experience exclusively in terms of problems (or 'challenges') and solutions, the self-help industry keeps us on a never-ending treadmill. There is no sense that you can relax, that things might actually be good enough as they are, or that even if they aren't so great right now, this might be something to be tolerated and endured rather than fixed. Although I suspect he was referring to the problems of the Middle East, the Israeli politician Shimon Peres once said something profoundly true: 'If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact -- not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.' However, popular psychology is having none of that. Instead it feeds off our dissatisfaction with ourselves and our lot. It tells us not only that things can be improved, but that it is our responsibility to improve them.

What does the boldfaced sentence mean?
(1) popular psychology is in the process of having none of that.
(2) popular psychology is equivalent to having none of that.
  

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No, it means popular psychology refuses to accept that there is no solution to that problem. com/definition/us/want_(or_will_have)_none_of

  • No, it means popular psychology refuses to accept that there is no solution to that problem.
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No, it means popular psychology refuses to accept that there is no solution to that problem.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/want_(or_will_have)_none_of
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So, it's in the progressive tense. Thanks.

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