Now notice this: technology is advanced enough to make us happy. I can expand on that point.
Now read this: if our happiness end goal can be reached, why isn't a group of people organizing Happiness-Wikipedia? A single resource from where we can manage our lives?
Science shows us exactly what makes us happy, in what quantities, what we should keep balance, everything. Why are our institutions failing us when we could have ergonomically nutritionally proficient polylingual emotionally stable comfy-demo-gods of the first Order Of Bose Electronics?
The point is, we are a hairline away from managing meaning and purpose with a volume knob.
Why is the end goal of politics happiness? It isn't in The Republic, nor in Locke/Hobbes.
Oliver Campbell
>being happy is the end goal. >not pursuing a life of truth and justice >literally being a godless commie kill yourself irl
Jordan Fisher
I feel like he's being the polar opposite of a commie. Much more dialectical to suggest there are higher callings than individual homeostasis.
Julian Harris
What do you think of this?: The hedonistic treadmill is exhausting and unpleasant. So while suffering on the treadmill, can you give me at least one specific example of a common unpleasant feeling or action?
Elijah James
Happiness isn't the goal faggot. Love, adversity, and real human toil and conquest will always make for a more interesting and glorious humanity.
The predominant appeal of communism is that it presents the myth of a perfectly fair and egalitarian society as something that's attainable. It's giving into the temptation of having your life kept blissful for you by the state (essentially as a proxy mother)
It's an immature fantasy to think that life should lack any negativity, for it's suffering that gives life meaning.
Anthony Thomas
You can have happiness while pursuing truth and justice.
They are not mutually exclusive. They are symbiotic. This means happiness will fuel the quest for truth. You may ask: What good is truth that doesn't make you happy? Unhappy truths create a basis for future happy truths. E.g: Bongo discovers fire: Unhappy truth? Bongo burns himself. Thats an unhappy truth of fire. But later on Bongo walks into Best Buy and orders himself a semicircular HD 120Hz VR TV and can manage his little brothers and sisters with Eyeball-Tracking-Augmented navigation using camera drones. This a happy truth. Fire hurts, but later technology lets us do incredible things to help manage our family life, decreasing our stress. This one example of how technology can make us happy.
So as we uncover truths and pursue what is right, the possibilities only widen.
Like a fractal.
Noah Rivera
Love comes hand in hand with Happiness.
Can you answer this: What is an adversity, toil, or hard work where happiness cannot be involved?
Kevin Thompson
Politics defines institutions, creating stable safe society, eliminating fear of death or free for all looting. This creates the conditions for happiness to exist. Politics is inescapably linked with happiness.
Eli Wilson
you seem like you're genuinely seeking some sort of meaningful existence so I'll cut you some slack.
your excessively positive view of technology is naive, though. you're not wrong that's it's made life better in ways that we never could've foreseen but without understanding that the opposite is also true then you will stay trapped in an ideological fantasy.
read unabomber's manifesto.
John Baker
I assume the problem is the state and it providing an easy button for life. I propose something else. I say give people all the tools and knowledge they would ever need about happiness in one place. They will use these tools in their toils, hardships, and work. The ideally productive life is a happy one.
Ayden Kelly
But then you would have to admit that the only political system worth having is one that supports a strong military. Without that, the house of cards falls down, so you've created an entire system that requires defense spending above all else.
Hudson Hernandez
Having read his manifesto, I have a comment and a question for you: "leftists [are] motivated less by distress at society's ills than by the need to satisfy his drive for power by imposing his solutions on society"
What prevents is from having happiness toolboxes available that are powerful enough to mitigate any unhappiness caused by government and corporate use of technology?
Julian Thompson
The only end goal of any life is to evolve. Almost all politics fail at this. Politics serve two functions - to provide the most security and basic needs for the largest amount of citizens, and to funnel money and power into the hands of the few elite citizens. Technology, and eugenics, are the keys to evolution, which is also the key to happiness. A technocratic oligarchy is the light of the future. But some feelings will have to be hurt. To pursue the vision, some of the troglodytes will have to be left behind. Would you rather the government spend $100 of tax income on food stamps to feed a future gangbanger in a ghetto somewhere? The 8th child in a dysfunctional family living in poverty? Spend that $100 to pay for water for Syrian refugees whose brains are stunted from nutritional deficiencies growing up, who will never amount to anything? Or would that $100 be better spent to further research into genetic manipulation to engineer super intelligence? Something that will benefit all mankind to come, forever? Our leaders lack vision. And so do the hylic conservative Luddites who balk at technology, making appeals to nature. Yes, the continuation of life is important. But creating and sustaining life just to perpetuate life is meaningless. Life exists to evolve. Humans have the tools to accelerate our own evolution. Nothing should take priority over this, nothing.
Jace Bennett
We will have foes across borders for our lifetime. Let the defensive spending continue as long as we follow this plan:
Develop the flexibility and ease-of-use of this happiness toolbox. Have it available for everyone for free. Spread it worldwide until everyone realizes living with it is objectively worse than without it. World leaders start using it, realizing ways to spread this happiness toolbox even to their strategic foes.
Literally everyone starts using it, the world enters a new age.
Thomas Bennett
The end goal is to keep people from killing each other over finite resources. So you're right to a degree, but I don't think it goes as far as happiness, that's up to the individual.
Michael Powell
One example is always trying to improve yourself by spending money on a product rather than just mastering your craft. Every guitarists wants the fancy new UltraDistortionV2 stompbox but none of them want to learn the Locrian mode.
Gabriel Nguyen
How is your "happiness toolbox" any different than the use of drugs like antidepressants, which create an artificial sense of docility and well-being in it's users? or for that matter even something like cocaine? pure pleasure and motivation.
both make a man more productive and happy from a materialist perspective. but would you call this truth? are these people achieving the goal of life?
do you believe in something transcendent and free in the individual? or would man be satisfied being mapped out and played like a piano key?
Bentley Rogers
What if eugenics exists alongside another way of effecting evolution?
Everyone has a brain, everyone experiences neural growth.
What if we embrace the brain's neuroplasticity by giving dehydrated prune infants the tools to experience this process:
1. Who am I? What do I want? 2. How can I get what I want? 3. How can I use my time and energy efficiently? 4. How can I consistently bypass thoughts of hunger, lonliness, laziness. self-pity, self-hate, and blaming others? 5. How can I take advantage of the happiness toolbox's condensed, summarized, credible, scientific knowledge about the human machine works and apply more and more of it in my life everyday so it sticks and I begin to see accumulating gains in happiness, understanding of myself and others, and my/the value in society.
Mason Thompson
Minimizing chronic stress of fear of dying Maximizes happiness.
Gabriel Phillips
Too many drugs. Take a whippet on acid
Jace Smith
>politics
Lets look at the root word to discover the true meaning.
Greek poli + ticks
Poli = Many
Ticks = Blood sucking parasites
So we can clearly see that "poli-ticks" is an ancient word for many blood sucking parasites.
Evan Fisher
Falling into spending money instead of focusing on a craft is one way to pursue happiness. Mastering a craft is another. If buying too much stuff is making you unhappy, buy less stuff. If you still feel the urge to buy stuff, consider your budget, whether you will actually use it. Budget and time-efficiency are key parts of any happiness toolbox.
If mastering a craft is hard to find motivation for, the happiness toolbox gives you tools to motivate yourself. I can expand on how it does that.
