Draining the Poison

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Draining the Poison
By Laura Hollis
Published Sept. 29, 2016
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I was at O'Hare Airport a few nights ago, waiting to pick up family members returning from out of town. As the cellphone lot at O'Hare is next to one of the runways, I sat there watching one magnificent flying machine after another stream in across the night sky, and then fly directly over my head as they landed.

Incredible.

I then paid attention to hundreds of taxi, limos and shuttles lined up to whisk people to wherever they were going. As I drove home that night, I marveled at the network of highways and surface roads upon which trucks and other transport carried consumer goods hither and yon. Everywhere I looked, I could see restaurants, coffee shops, schools, offices, gas stations, mechanics, malls and stores, churches and hospitals — all while I listened to satellite radio, my children watched a DVD, and my husband downloaded information wirelessly onto his smartphone.

We are living in the most amazing civilization in the history of humanity. And we do not appreciate it. We should be the happiest people in the world. But we are not. We have become embittered and perennially angry.

A couple of years ago, comedian Louis CK was on the Conan O'Brien show, and said, "Everything is amazing, and is nobody is happy." Just this week, I read an article in Hollywood Reporter about multimillion dollar underground bunkers for the uber-rich. The owner of Ultimate Bunker was quoted as saying, "Everyone I talk to thinks we are doomed, no matter who is elected."...
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[Idaho_Cowboy]

Really good read. I'll give a hint at the ending: progressive-ism is poison.

[goatprairie]

Are there many squabbling, angry people in the country? Yes, there probably always was. But it's not nearly quite as bad as the writer of this article claims, and I'm what you'd called an optimistic pessimist. I'm fairly cheerful most of the time even though I know the country is going downhill thanks to excessive liberalism.
Nevertheless, the wife and I are pretty happy people. Because we don't expect life to be perfect. I've got liberal siblings who start arguments about politics every chance they get. But we still get along.
I think conservatives are generally happier than liberals anyway because conservatives know, unlike liberals, that human  perfection is impossible.
The people who run the Dem Party  represent people who are perpetually unhappy with their lot in life even though they themselves created the situations they're in. Progressivism is basically blaming other people for your failures in life.
The only really unhappy conservative people I've come across, at least on the internet, are those far, far right people who hate everybody who isn't white.
But most liberals seem to hate everybody who doesn't agree with them.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Are there many squabbling, angry people in the country? Yes, there probably always was. But it's not nearly quite as bad as the writer of this article claims, and I'm what you'd called an optimistic pessimist. I'm fairly cheerful most of the time even though I know the country is going downhill thanks to excessive liberalism.
Nevertheless, the wife and I are pretty happy people. Because we don't expect life to be perfect. I've got liberal siblings who start arguments about politics every chance they get. But we still get along.
I think conservatives are generally happier than liberals anyway because conservatives know, unlike liberals, that human  perfection is impossible.
The people who run the Dem Party  represent people who are perpetually unhappy with their lot in life even though they themselves created the situations they're in. Progressivism is basically blaming other people for your failures in life.
The only really unhappy conservative people I've come across, at least on the internet, are those far, far right people who hate everybody who isn't white.
But most liberals seem to hate everybody who doesn't agree with them.

That's a very healthy attitude to have. I tend to be pretty happy too, though it takes some work. I realized that we aren't going to live through life anyways. Psalm 2 can be a comfort at times.

You are right on the money about progessivism. Nothing makes people more unhappy than feeling helpless and the modern progressive movement spends all their time telling people how they are helpless victims and only the democrats can save them. Then when the democrats do win things only get worse. Look at the rage present in the riots the other day for an extreme example.