Strange Facts and Amazing Articles
A33: Our Unhappy World
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 People are not happy today, and this is allover the
World. Sure, not all people are unhappy. Some
of them simply do not care about being happy or not; all they want is to be better-off than
few of the people they know.
Those are people with little power of understanding, and they do not waste it on such abstract and irrelevant
things as is this "happiness".A very interesting study was, and it still is, conducted in USA. Researchers have analyzed the life of the Grand Prize lottery winners during the past 20 years. Almost all winners had a nightmarish life after their spectacular achievement: broken marriages, alcohol and drugs dependency, accidents, crimes ... Other studies have analyzed the life of the ordinary USA citizens during the 1974 to date period. Although the buying power is double today, the degree of happiness of the average USA citizen it is a lot lower. People have better cars, wonderful color TVs, way more entertainment, but their levels of happiness continue dropping alarmingly. The US rate of divorces has doubled; teen-suicidal rate has tripled; juvenile violence has increased six times; depression it is also increasing ... The problem is so acute and frightening that the US government has increased funding for the utopian "happiness research". If things continue the way they are today ... Well! USA is hold intentionally isolated as a small, contained World within itself, but the same thing happens allover the planet--possibly, even worse than in USA. The question is: "Is there any hope for a better life in the future for us?" The blunt answer is, "No." Given our current evolutionary trend, there is no hope for a better life tomorrow. However, things are not going to work for us in the future as they do today. That doesn't necessarily mean it is going to be better in the future; things are going to be just different--totally different. The best thing to do is to analyze the factors that influence our degree of happiness. Somewhere in a previous articles it was mentioned that, before anything else, people need justice: true, strong, social justice. That is the most important ingredient in our happiness, because we are social-individuals living in societies. Today, our society is far from being a serene, nice place. Many refer to our society as being a jungle where people have to fight for life or death--that is perfectly true. What people need is social order, social discipline, tough moral rules, and justice. Adolf Hitler was a degenerate, inhuman individual, but that is exactly what he brought to the German people when he became a "democratically elected Chancellor". Germany was in a deep social-economic chaos after the devastating 1929 economic crisis. Hitler managed to bring not only order into German economic life, but also a lot of happiness and hope for the "true German" people. Of course, his "methods" were despicable, but this social phenomenon is interesting to analyze for its social-psychology implications. What Hitler did was, he had implemented tough restrictive rules: economic, social, and even cultural. Unfortunately, he based all his motivations on the hate against Jews, which clearly shows his unnatural level of dementia. |
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 Anyway, a tougher, more restrictive social environment is one ingredient needed to bring happiness into social-individuals' lives. Unfortunately, a restrictive society is in contradiction to the Democratic Freedom concept, which means democratic societies are condemned to unhappiness. There is, however, another factor which could bring happiness to individuals--this time seen only as individuals, not as social-individuals. So, what is that "thing" that people want, or need, say, more than money, love, drugs, power, or even religion? Better said, what could be more valuable then anything else during our short existence on this planet? Very few could answer that question, and not many are able to understand the answer. The most important thing for us, the Grail of Grails is ... KNOWLEDGE! We know so little about Life, Universe, about THE GREAT CREATOR, and about us ... Try to calculate how much it would cost to buy New York City. It may be there are not enough cash money in the entire World to buy New York. Next, try to figure out the dollar-value of the entire USA--the figure should be astronomical. Expand your endeavors and try to estimate the dollar-value of our planet. Many are going to say it is priceless; however, KNOWLEDGE is more valuable than our entire planet! With adequate KNOWLEDGE we could easily discover and populate other planets, in other Planetary Systems. The mineral riches valued by our Civilization today could increase quantitatively to "enough for one billion years" if we become able to exploit all resources of our Planetary System only. All those things, and way, way more are possible ONLY with knowledge. True, deep knowledge is more valuable than anything you could imagine. Practically, the value of knowledge is LIMITLESS! No matter how much money, drugs, power, or whatever, people are going to have, knowledge will always be far, far more valuable. In order to help you expand your knowledge horizon way beyond anything you ever heard or read about, we suggest reading MERCY, and Three Stories from Hilsa'N Tassa Galaxy. *** First published on March 07, 2006 |
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