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Happy talk

25/11/2010

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It gives me great pleasure to announce that ... we are to have a happiness index.

Ant Cameron is quoted as believing that "the country would be better off if we thought about well-being as well as economic growth". I'm sure that Dec Clegg agrees but he's busy justifying himself to people to whom he lied. ("No more broken promises" he promised.)

But back to our reasons to be cheerful. Marx believed that: "it is not the consciousness of man that determines their being but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.’

(This has been shortened and simplified by people like Clinton into "It's the economy, stupid".)

And because that is the case, the happiness index is probably going to end up as a measure of misery.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Today's listening: Jean-Luc Ponty/Frank Zappa, America Drinks Up and Goes Home".


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Midlifedreamer
26/11/2010 08:04:37

As that great observer of life, Mosser, once yoddeled...

'I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour

But heaven knows I'm miserable now...'

And as his contemporary, Weller responded...


'You choose your leaders and place your trust

As their lies put you down and their promises bust

You'll see kidney machine replaced by rockets and guns

And the public wants what the public gets

But I don't get what this society wants
I'm going underground

So as Morrisey lays on his bed in the City of Angels, counting his miserable millions. And Weller combs his greying fifty something feathercut in his home counties mansion, its time for me to leave the wheels of industry to freewheel over the weekend and head into the haze and go underground!

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Will link
29/11/2010 02:20:49

Max,

Serif and sans serif.

Sans serif fonts are much easier to read on the web. And trying to read this is giving me a headache..


Will

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Max
30/11/2010 03:03:17

Hi Will - understand the convention. But bored to tears with the sans faces. Can you bear with me until the website creation program allows me a wider and better choice? Cheers Mx

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