re: Did It All Start with the Hippies?

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I think a lot of our more macro problems would self-correct if the population felt more shame about being a trashy loser and took more pride in their appearance, career, home, etc. Nothing matters to anyone anymore.

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Yes.

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eta: Also, we need to kill the word "happy" from our vocabulary. People aren't meant to be "happy".

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Ding ding ding.

But almost all of our modern movements are based on trying to analyze "happiness" and "good" outcomes as an equation that can be balanced across a variety of random, non-mathematical factors. Even the concept of equality, when it's used beyond it's actual meaning, is simply an approximation of tweakable outcomes that can be manipulated to get an equal level of happiness" It's ludicrous. And we chase it, over and over and over again.