I've seen the studies supposedly showing that right-wingers are "happier" than lefties and they all come down to the same thing, which Douthat (Ross Douthat? "Serious?" Really??) calls "a refusal of contentment."
That's his "serious" version of "I'm alright, Jack," an expression that translates to "I got mine, so screw you." Put another w…
I've seen the studies supposedly showing that right-wingers are "happier" than lefties and they all come down to the same thing, which Douthat (Ross Douthat? "Serious?" Really??) calls "a refusal of contentment."
That's his "serious" version of "I'm alright, Jack," an expression that translates to "I got mine, so screw you." Put another way, what the studies say is that lefties can't be "happy," i.e., "content," while being aware of the suffering of others.
If abandoning my sense of justice is what it takes to be "happy," to "accept contentment," I don't think that's a type of "happiness" in which I have any interest.
As a footnote, some years ago I wrote a relatively long piece relative to one such study. The link is here:
I've seen the studies supposedly showing that right-wingers are "happier" than lefties and they all come down to the same thing, which Douthat (Ross Douthat? "Serious?" Really??) calls "a refusal of contentment."
That's his "serious" version of "I'm alright, Jack," an expression that translates to "I got mine, so screw you." Put another way, what the studies say is that lefties can't be "happy," i.e., "content," while being aware of the suffering of others.
If abandoning my sense of justice is what it takes to be "happy," to "accept contentment," I don't think that's a type of "happiness" in which I have any interest.
As a footnote, some years ago I wrote a relatively long piece relative to one such study. The link is here:
https://whoviating.blogspot.com/2010/11/are-you-happy-now.html