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Tupperware culture, and the culture of most direct selling businesses, is infused with the rhetoric of positive thinking manuals, a genre of writing with a long history in the United States.

Just close your eyes. Visualize. Gaze at your belly button. Sit in your lotus position, empty your mind and something wonderful will happen.” These are the words of modern-day charlatans who promise ...