Happiness is just a shitty metric in general because it's entirely self reported so there's no way to be objective. It also depends on who you ask, so there's a lot of ways to fuck with the stats to get the result you want. If a country's danger hairs are self reporting happiness then it's a shithole. Want an even worse metric? Check out how academics measure democracy. It's entirely based on whether or not the left is getting its way.
One of my biggest personal redpills was reading Umberto Eco's 14 features of fascism and realizing that it's basically a screed against any form of nationalism. And that's the seminal text defining fascism according to "academics".
Happiness is actually fundamentally flawed because it creates an inescapable spiral of failure.
Everyone is not happy some of the time, even those who are otherwise successful (good career, loving family, meaningful pursuits, etc). So, if happiness is a measure of success, then despite all those things, they're failing. Which makes them even less happy. Which means they're really failing. And so on.
How do you fix this problem? Definitely don't sacrifice anything to create a better future because sacrifice, in the now, doesn't make you happy. Don't excercise (because it's painful), don't spend time with your children (because they aren't perfect), don't try to fix any of your problems (because they're depressing). Nope, get high, have a wank, and play video games forever; because that makes you happy right now...
Usually they tell me how many times they've tried to kill themselves. But you're right in that they're trying to deal with their problems by being "happy" through drug abuse. If they faced their problems head on, usually by changing their own shitty behaviour, they might not be "happy" but they also wouldn't be trying to OD.
Happiness is just a shitty metric in general because it's entirely self reported so there's no way to be objective. It also depends on who you ask, so there's a lot of ways to fuck with the stats to get the result you want. If a country's danger hairs are self reporting happiness then it's a shithole. Want an even worse metric? Check out how academics measure democracy. It's entirely based on whether or not the left is getting its way.
One of my biggest personal redpills was reading Umberto Eco's 14 features of fascism and realizing that it's basically a screed against any form of nationalism. And that's the seminal text defining fascism according to "academics".
Happiness is actually fundamentally flawed because it creates an inescapable spiral of failure.
Everyone is not happy some of the time, even those who are otherwise successful (good career, loving family, meaningful pursuits, etc). So, if happiness is a measure of success, then despite all those things, they're failing. Which makes them even less happy. Which means they're really failing. And so on.
How do you fix this problem? Definitely don't sacrifice anything to create a better future because sacrifice, in the now, doesn't make you happy. Don't excercise (because it's painful), don't spend time with your children (because they aren't perfect), don't try to fix any of your problems (because they're depressing). Nope, get high, have a wank, and play video games forever; because that makes you happy right now...
just as some fent-leaner how happy he is.
"shieet, damn right i's happy, i gots alllll da fent i need"
Usually they tell me how many times they've tried to kill themselves. But you're right in that they're trying to deal with their problems by being "happy" through drug abuse. If they faced their problems head on, usually by changing their own shitty behaviour, they might not be "happy" but they also wouldn't be trying to OD.