May 07, 2008
"The Riddle of Conservative Happiness"
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snarks about the hypothesis that conservatives "rationalize" more than liberals, and how those who study these things sometimes can't see the forest for the state-mandated-redistributionist trees.
Hm. The study appears to be as condescending and silly as most of these things are, but of course it got me thinking about how few people I know are really happy—conservative or liberal.
I do think it's more of a challenge for people who are overbrained. Though please note that I don't see neurotic hand-wringing as a sign of high intelligence. I just think that like everything else, happiness tends to be hard work. And, as with everything else, some people have more of a talent for it than others do.
But not to try seems like a tragedy at best, and a slap in the face of God at worst. I suppose that I ultimately agree with Dennis Prager: if one has the choice, it is more merciful to those around us—and more respectful to our better selves—if we do our best to be happy.
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I think it has to do with your point of view. Lets say you are a conservative in an argument with a liberal about how to elevate the poor and down trodden. To the conservative its simple: get a fork lift and cut the capitol gains tax. Its equally simple to the liberal: shovel more money into a bureaucracy that hasn't done a thing in forty years except perpetuate itself and burned money.
After much shouting both walk away with the conviction that the time would have been better spent running head long into the block walls that invariably surround Government buildings. Governments are good at walls.
At the end of the day the liberal believes that the conservative is evil, that he hates poor people and is a greedy, grasping bad something that begins with a G. The conservative believes that the liberal is stupid.
Who do you think would be happier: the one that thinks he's surrounded by evil directed by dark overlords power and privilege or the one that thinks he's the smartest bear in the woods?
Posted by: Sejanus at May 08, 2008 12:05 PM (I1Bjr)
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