Paragone
https://www.funtoo.org/Welcome
instead of Gentoo.
Spend a half-month considering, deeply, which path you would most-value having taken at the end of your life.
Due to an unconscious psychological-limitation, imagine your funeral at 1.5x your current age ( we apparently have a kind of “horizon” in our ability to understand our meaning beyond that ),
and imagine each significant variant, or compromise, and see how each makes you, in that future-condition/context feel.
Your answer is within you, same as for everyone.
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Youtube deletes fact-checking comments.
Youtube deletes comments that link to Nature papers.
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SO LONG AS IT IS ACTUAL MERITOCRACY,
and not just privilege’s gaslighting about it ( via making-certain that the poorest have inferior-nutrition, inferior-air-quality, worse-pollution, inferior-education, inferior-healthcare, etc ),
then yes, I hold it is The Proper Way.
However, it REQUIRES a truly-level playing-field, and not a 2-tiered “level” playing-field.
The Scandinavian system of ONLY public-schooling, so there is only 1 tier of education-quality, is a required component.
Student nutrition needs to be guaranteed.
Healthcare needs to work properly, for all.
Livingwage needs to be for all full-time work, and companies that try to hire only part-time for the real-work, have to have the profit-benefit of such hamstringing-of-many-lives cut from them all, permanently.
Fairness requries careful systematic, & openly-honest enforcement, because the DarkHexad: narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy/nihilism/sadism/systemic-dishonesty ALWAYS seeks to enforce abusive-exploitation, and it is underhandedly aggressive, and natural in our human nature.
Not mitigating it == accommodating it.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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Fish, arthropods, etc, had eggs millions of years before chickens.
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Don’t put-up with Israel’s gaslighting.
I used to support Israel.
As an Englishman, whose identity I don’t remember pointed-out, years ago:
IF the Jews of the region have a moral-right to their own homeland, THEN so do the Palestinians.
EITHER BOTH OR NEITHER-DO.
Once someone has proven they are only narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath/psychopath, through their nihilistic obliteration of other’s lives, and much more, and throught their sadism,
they have ZERO claim on God, on “scripture”, or on “validity” or on Truth.
The old rabbis ( find some interviewed on youtube! ) who call-out Israel & I stand together in contempting their lies.
KNOW gaslighters for what they are, & deal-with-them as such.
Rabies is rabies.
IF the patient can be got sane/healthy, then help 'em do that, but if not…
then don’t let 'em infect you with their rabies.
( & that goes also for Hamas’s terror-strike, too: both sides have crossed the line into worshipping nihilism/mass-murder, while claiming God, sadly )
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Read Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture”, and consider that a person in a high-collectivity culture, which also is a high-power-distance culture, may well answer the survey with what “face” requires them to say, instead of answering with what they, themselves, feel.
If you aren’t correcting for that, you’re doing propaganda, not science.
Different cultures REQUIRE different subjectivities be taken-into-account.
I think it would be more valid to dig into specific dimensions of happiness, & make some of those objective ( cortisol-blood-levels, for measuring stress, e.g. )
WHEN you ask people in individualistic cultures a question, and THEN you ask people in collectivist cultures the SAME question, they are not answering the same question, they are answering the social-pressure question, instead.
It makes complete mincemeat of cross-cultural measuring of “objective” things.
Try reading Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar” book, & understand just HOW different warm-vs-nordic cultures are, in instinct/reactions,
then it should be more obvious how such surveys are disinformation, not information.
Then it ISNT a
“Global Happiness Index”
, rather it is a
“Global URBAN Happiness Index”,
and such profound mislabeling of things is disinformation, not journalism.
Which, itself, is so systematic & profound, nowadays, that there isn’t much hope for integrity to win, in our world, now, anyways.
I’m Buddhist, so I’m answering this question from my real-life standpoint:
Authentic Realization of one’s Ultimate ( original awareness ) Nature.
What could be more precious?
Given that ALL of one’s unconscious-mind’s mechanisms exist to block that from happening, to protect unconsciousness’s Eternal unbroken dominion, what could be more difficult to earn/obtain?
All the distractions in the world, “helping” one to NOT earn one’s deepest profoundest Truth…
All the profits that cease, should one get anywhere in self-realization…
You simply don’t need any external resource, for there to be a most-precious-resource, you know?