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I say if you have money to do whatever you want everyday, there’s an overwhelming chance you’ll be happy. The rest of those sayings are just for us plebs that
by dyauspitr 1y ago
I say if you have money to do whatever you want everyday, there’s an overwhelming chance you’ll be happy.
The rest of those sayings are just for us plebs that have to rationalize working 40-60 hours a week.
- AdieuToLogic 1y agoMy key point is that happiness is a choice. I hope everyone can find a way to choose it.
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- balamatom 1y agoThat's wrong. Plenty of people have "found a way to choose happiness" already, and we've all seen what exactly they've wrought.
- totetsu 1y agoI think PP's point was .. that even if you spend your whole life pressed into laboring to produce a surplus to satisfy the excessive consumption of the elites of your heretical society, in ways that create existential risk for future generations, and are at odds with your own inner values and moral compass.. you can still see the 'immateriality' of all that in the grand scheme of things and choose to be happy.
- AdieuToLogic 1y agoNo, my point is happiness is a choice. There is no sociopolitical statement, no call-to-arms, no pontification as to the measure of one's life, no generational implications. There is an existential consideration, but not of the nature your post implies. Happiness is an individual choice, available to us all at any time. Full stop.
- balamatom 1y agoYeah, no. What you're promoting is a deeply narcissistic worldview, and I hope either the cure or the consequences reach you soon. Though maybe those are going to present as the same thing.
- Scarblac 1y agoI really don't see how your comment has to do with his at all. You're both talking about completely different things, I think.
- balamatom 1y agoOK, just to make sure we're on the same page here: you've already tried trying to make the connection, right?
- braebo 1y agoThey’re not entirely wrong, and your comment is seemingly unhinged and unprovoked… but there’s a lot of literature on stuff like mindfulness, CBT, and the impact thoughts can have on one’s emotions, especially happiness.
- cardanome 1y agoCBT and mindfulness can help with SOME problems. It is great when it does but it also can work less well or even harmful for other problems. Especially people that are prone to rumination don't benefit much from it, they need the opposite of mindfulness. The unhinged part was to imply that people can just choose to be happy under any circumstance which is obviously magical thinking.
- balamatom 1y ago>to imply that people can just choose to be happy under any circumstance which is obviously magical thinking Worse, I'm afraid. It's ideological thinking of the basest sort. Magical thinking at least lets a person see that their bullshit isn't working, potentially even walk it back, correct themselves. In ideological thinking, you gotta act as if the impossible wish has already come true. Reality says otherwise? Well, wish harder - or else. That's ideological thinking for ya. And those are only two of the cards in that deck. I've observed that with sufficient mental self-mutilation, people can in fact choose to be happy under any circumstance. Occasionally even at no cost to innocents. (Though rarely - who'd permit them a clean getaway?) Woulda had a field day with figuring out what complexes are puppetting AdieuToLogic, if their most coherent argument wasn't "fuck off" - pardon, "full stop".
- Scarblac 1y agoBut that's a trap, the money you "need" is partly decided by how much you have available. Once you're used to the money from a 40 day job it's hard to do with less, but other people manage fine because they never got used to having a lot.