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So do you believe truth is miserable? That truth is miserable is just another lie. Yes, every single moment in the world could be 200 people killed, 20 women raped. But there is billions smiling. People smiling is not news, but people crying is. People building a house is not news, but a fire on one (for every fire there is 1000 new houses) is news. Movies only show people being killed(5-6 per movie), raped(1average)…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
I find it easy to find counter-examples to these anecdotes. There are a lot of people very aware of how rich other people are without it affecting them one bit. I think it boils down to this: very rarely will you receive just plain vanilla information, if such a thing exists. Almost always the information will be wrapped in some kind of value system. As you absorb the information, you end up taking in the value syste…
> Let's use TV as an example. So yep, if you spend your time on one of those cable channels where you watch rich people all the time, pretty soon it's not that you'll understand how rich people live, it's that pretty soon you'll start believing that it is better to live like they do. In Brazil and India, rich people on soap operas don't have many kids; sure enough, when you correlate the opening of TV stations with b…
Cause resentment because one is at the bottom of the pyramid
OR
Create guilt because one is at the top of the pyramid
Add to that the realization that very few people are "self-made" and timing, family, culture and conditioning play a huge role in success and you have a recipe for self-doubt/flagellation.
In my case, I just hit a wall when self-preservation kicked in and said "I WILL BE HAPPY, DAMMIT!". I still work at projects I think will make the world better, but don't let their success or failure cloud my feelings. I'm content most of the time.
I find it easy to find counter-examples to these anecdotes. There are a lot of people very aware of how rich other people are without it affecting them one bit. I think it boils down to this: very rarely will you receive just plain vanilla information, if such a thing exists. Almost always the information will be wrapped in some kind of value system. As you absorb the information, you end up taking in the value syste…
C-SPAN?
I find it easy to find counter-examples to these anecdotes. There are a lot of people very aware of how rich other people are without it affecting them one bit. I think it boils down to this: very rarely will you receive just plain vanilla information, if such a thing exists. Almost always the information will be wrapped in some kind of value system. As you absorb the information, you end up taking in the value syste…
source: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2...
I'm sure he used randomized blind statistically significant samples in each location to come to the conclusion that there were fewer smiles in the Chinese neighborhood. And he conducted experiments with isolated control groups to come to the conclusion that this was caused by the TV in their living rooms.
I find it easy to find counter-examples to these anecdotes. There are a lot of people very aware of how rich other people are without it affecting them one bit. I think it boils down to this: very rarely will you receive just plain vanilla information, if such a thing exists. Almost always the information will be wrapped in some kind of value system. As you absorb the information, you end up taking in the value syste…
> Let's use TV as an example. So yep, if you spend your time on one of those cable channels where you watch rich people all the time, pretty soon it's not that you'll understand how rich people live, it's that pretty soon you'll start believing that it is better to live like they do. In Brazil and India, rich people on soap operas don't have many kids; sure enough, when you correlate the opening of TV stations with b…
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