What can we learn from this? Socialism keeps people happy. Drugs and poverty (together), make people happy. Our world may not be collapsing around us, or at least we are not unhappy about it. Social surveys are important to academics but bear little import to people upon whom they are performed. Sociology is a form of navel gazing that has convinced itself it is science, cause it can apply numbers to silliness by taking surveys. I have little to say this morning and am grouchy. All this.
Wait, I have thought of a link that I want to make. It is to the recent posting here about how bad everything is. Please check it out. If I gave any weight to this stuff, I would be confused.
2 comments:
Discontent as well as the belief that social entropy is surrounding us is a cross-cultural phenomenon. What do most of these societies have in common? Market driven media.
Profiting from creating and maintaining a culture of malcontent and widespread phobia should be a line of work that we as a collective group should shun. Instead, these firms are lauded, quoted, and worshiped (though by no voice louder than their own). They muddy the waters of reality, making more difficult fix real problems. I suppose this moves along a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I too seem to be a bit cross thius morning, maybe things are as bad as the radio is telling me. Or maybe I'm just upset because we are butchering pigs but don't have any curing salt to make bacon.
Salt- now that is a resource that has had it's moment in the pages of history! Like oil, it once was an essential and rare resource. When you are makin bacon, it is all clear as to why. Of course, they probably make it there in the south, right?
The vocabulary gives weight to the argument, and it is a welcome addition to this blog. I think I get what you are saying- the media is the cause of much of our modern angst. (Not sure if profit media differentiates state run media. I suppose a fully state run media would want you to be happy, like in 1984.) And too many people buy what it is selling, literally and figuratively. Thus it is hard to discern what is a real issue to focus on, vs. an issues in the media that is secondary. Right?
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