| AMERICAN SCIENCE AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF HAPPINESS |
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| Robert Morpheal, Bob Ezergailis, Morphealism (morpheal@yahoo.com) |
2008/12/06 12:05 |
AMERICAN SCIENCE AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF HAPPINESS
BBC News - December 6th, 2008 Wrote:
US researchers. Researchers found a person is 25% more likely to be
happy if they have a friend living within a mile who becomes happy -
an effect that declined with distance.The study of 5000 adults, led by
the Harvard Medical School, says the 'happiness effect' extends to
three levels of separation - to the friend of a friend of a
friend.However, the study also found that the mood of work colleagues
America has long distorted most research on human contentment, and
happiness. We have to look at more solid sociology, psychology, from
40 years ago to begin to comprehend the negative changes that American
towards totalitarianism, tainted with its peculiar version of
This is partially due to ideology that emphasizes being sold on the
idea and rejects real psycho-physiological responses to the meeting of
real material needs and wants. A popular phrase, some years ago, was
happening or being experienced in material life of body and social,
behavioral, political and economic facticity, extended far beyond the
disagreement, even debate, and particularly expressions of unhappiness
In that paradigm something is always wrong with the complainant, and
everything reflects back onto self, including all blame for every
variety of anxiety, adversity, failure, obstacle, and misfortune.
It really meant that a frown of dissent was unacceptable, as were any
crept into Americanism, and meant that not only were people expected
to smile and be happy on the surface, but they had to internalize that
superficial fascism of externalized happiness as being what they truly
believed about themselves. Internalization of external behavior is a
factor in political totalitarianism. Earlier socio-psychological ideas
did not venture into promoting congruence but tended to follow
of external behavior was validated. The theory of congruence tends to
invalidate internal dissent and discontentment, supporting the
superficial living of the lie. The belief is also inculcated that
expressions of happiness and contentment, even when completely
inappropriate to circumstances are rewardable, while expressions of
unhappiness and discontentment are punishable reinforcing the revised
political value system.
The political implications are obvious. Slowly and certainly
everything that is wrong with society, the social situation, the
political realm, economics, and particularly wrong with religion or
the national ideology, is pushed behind the curtain of happiness. It
no longer exists. Only happiness exists. Those other matters are
Americanist religious ideology, If you are unhappy, discontented,
critical about anything, you can talk to yourself, by yourself,
forever, or seek medical help in terms of pharmaceuticals that will
help you change your mind to one of totalized happiness, via a
manipulation of your physiology. You have no freedom to be unhappy and
remain a member of society. That is not allowed. You will be passed
over in silence, utterly ignored, and told that you are crazy, needing
help, unhealthy, ill, and unacceptable to society, god, the nation,
the group, and so forth. Social dynamics become part of the
reinforcement of happiness enforcement.
Now we can see why the real condition of America has deteriorated
consistently and constantly for nearly 40 years, in every area of its
life, behind that curtain of enforced expressions and feelings of
contentment and happiness. We can now see why America, as nation, in
terms of its condition today, still cannot face its own truth, at home
and in the world beyond its borders. Why its upper leadership still
sells false beliefs, unable to face up to responsibility and failure.
Faith in the future, optimism, and being completely sold on those has
become a standard of health, of sanity, and a condition of social,
political even of economic membership. Even leadership is constrained
to the ideology of happiness. We have seen the slow erosion and
destruction of real political dissent in America, and of religious
dissent, watching it pushed increasingly underground and its
manifestations changed to increasingly ineffective, unemotive, masked
behind conflicted behavioral expressions and internal feelings. Real
dissent and discontent is no longer allowed its honest expression. It
is placed into social and psychological conflict with itself, in
regard to its negative valuing as unhealthy and inappropriate in the
larger sphere of life. It is parochialized to the extreme, and becomes
the preserve of smaller and smaller groups, who are increasingly
labelled as being the equivalent of dangerously infected, and
necessarily as undergoing treatment for what is wrong with them. The
usual result is increasing member antipathy and ambivalence to their
own cause and their own social associations.
Americanism has increasingly become an ideology that requires, in fact
demands, happiness, and demands its valuing by others when it occurs
meaninglessly in any, even when needs and wants are entirely unmet and
even when the circumstances make happiness inappropriate. In that
Americanist ideology dissent, discontent, unhappiness, and their
external to the psyche behavioral expressions become increasingly
always inappropriate, while their opposites are given increasing value
as being appropriate.
Americanism, even in its social and psychological science, is not
necessarily the truth about the human condition and about humanity.
The rest of the world needs to rethink the issues, and apply solid
real science and genuine critical thinking to it, not simply accept it
pursued on the basis of deeply held ideological assumptions,
unexamined and unexaminable beliefs, acting simply as handmaiden in
support of a failing ideology.
Now, smile and be happy whenever you see an American flag. America
demands it.
You have no choice. Not only must you smile and be happy on the
outside, but you must
feel that happiness as your one and only internal response. All your
feelings and all your
thoughts must be pure happiness when you see that flag. You have
something seriously
wrong with you if you do not feel happy inside and show your happiness
outside as behavior
that is clearly expressive to all around you, when you see that flag.
And never utter what might be considered to be a discouraging word, or
you will end up the recipient of a flood of discouragement. You have
to sell the ideology. You have to promote it. You have to be an
American salesman of a bill of goods ideology and spirituality,
joining a nation of such salesmanship, if you want to succeed at
anything.
Cheers.
Robert Morpheal
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