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Does happiness mean harmony or does happiness mean expression? Therein lies the philosophical difference between the US and China.
by bordercases 6y ago
Does happiness mean harmony or does happiness mean expression?
Therein lies the philosophical difference between the US and China.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoHow harmonious is a society if that harmony is forced upon it?
- bordercases 6y agoHarmonious! FWIW China also has a culture that appreciates subterfuge/hidden efforts as a part of what it means to live skillfully in society. So the dissonance might not be as strong if you are high-trust on the surface, yet low-trust in the back.
- themacguffinman 6y agoHarmony for whom? Dead & tortured dissidents, religious citizens, people who express truth to help their community against dangerous state sanctioned lies? The citizens for whom dissent is fatal and whose every communication & information source is controlled; those are the people who are proclaiming that they live in harmony? This is philosophically absurd, like a murderer pleading innocence by killing everyone who dares accuse him. What immense harmony must have fallen in the court!