28 Jan 2014

The End of Men? Or the End of Women? + The Stupidity of Political Hope + Mind Control in Politics

By From the Men are Good Video Channel, which if you have not subscribed to, you are, we must declare, suspect.
This is the first youtube to use a more talking approach. The others are highly labor intensive and take weeks and sometimes months to produce. This kind of video can be done much quicker. I hope you find it of interest. TG


The happiness research is fascinating and can be seen in this link:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969.pdf?new_window=1
There are many who are hypothesizing about the reasons for this marked shift and the I don’t think there is a clear winner to date. However, as I say in the video it looks to me that the shift in roles for women has taken a toll. I could be wrong.
This is a chart showing a slice of the date taken from 12 graders. It gives you an idea of how things have shifted:
http://www.tmbc.com/legacy/site/strongestlifebook/resources/HappyDifference12thGraders.pdf
The narcissism data is also fairly controversial as can be seen in the NYT’s piece. It is interesting that Twenger first started her research when she saw a large shift in women claiming to be masculine. I think this Times article goes into that a bit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/science/seeing-narcissists-everywhere.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
No question that our obesity, both men and women, has risen in the last 50 years or so. Yes, it has risen for both but I think there is an important difference. A man can be very successful and of high status (wealthy, powerful, star os some sort) and be obese. I don’t think the liklihood is the same for women. If women are obese it plays directly into her attractiveness and that is an important factor in women attracting mates. So the increase in obesity is likely more deleterious to women then to men. At least that is the way I see it.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm
http://www.livestrong.com/article/384722-how-much-have-obesity-rates-risen-since-1950/

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The Stupidity of Political Hope
carlos morales: There is no greater lie than false hope, and hope in politicians is as false as you can get. Political Hope is the ambiguous notion which convolutes and embeds itself in the irrational psyche. It causes a foggy disposition which comes over you like the most mind-altering of drugs. It is Empty promises, empty rhetoric, and a consistently inconsistent message all under the presupposition that the best way to live is to have someone else tell you how to live, what to think, and how to do it, yet it's worse than that, because that "how" is not a suggestion - it's a mandate



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Mind Control in American Politics
corbettreport: Having been immersed in the left/right facade their entire lives, many have begun to see the world and those around them through that prism. Either someone is on the same "side" as they are, or they are the enemy. There is no room for nuance, no subtle distinctions to be made, no room for alliance or cooperation on matters of great import. Perhaps most devastatingly, there is now little room for any analysis of the powers behind the political throne, the oligarchical financial interests that could care less whether this or that President has a "D" or an "R" next to their name, whether a Prime Minister is "Labour" or "Conservative," whether an MEP identifies with the "left" or the "right." Deprived of this understanding of the real nature of political power, the public is truly powerless to identify the real problem at the root of today's political crisis, let alone even begin to address it.


Angelo: Left, right, man, woman, divide and rule. 

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