[lit-ideas] Re: The Big Book of Happiness
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:48:54 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
Sent: Aug 22, 2004 10:56 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] The Big Book of Happiness
In a message dated 8/22/2004 10:50:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Americans are not the happiest people in the world, literally. Without
looking it up, we might even be below some African nations.
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I would appreciate it _if_ you would look it up (where?)
For starters:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/24/MN165379.DTL
I couldn't the study that surveyed African nations as well. It may have been
mentioned in passing wherever I read it that they are surprising happy
(obviously those not war torn). AIDS is changing everything now. Search
rating countries happiness on google. If I find anything else, I'll send it.
Regarding "it's absurd, so I'll believe it," that strikes me as a variation on
willing suspension of disbelief. Willing suspension is perhaps a temporary
state. Believing the absurd becomes a way of life. Gotta run.
Andy Amago
Cheers,
JL
Refs.
"The Big Book of Happiness", 5th edition.
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