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David Allen sent:
The Pursuit of Happiness
Source: peakprosperity.com
What is the point of prosperity?
Though few people ever voice this question openly, the general
assumption is that prosperity and wealth increase happiness.
Quick note here based on the quote david sent to me,
I didn't
read past the quote fyi, so I may be taking this short of full
context, but I did want to reaffirm a point, about how social
perspective, our topic for the week in FLOWsi is working
here...
In BS, we know that confusing means and ends is key for BS
success, and that puts money/wealth, etc in the pockets of
those who get it, and who are aligned with it (the 1-5%)...
If you go back to the declaration of independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with
certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness
The idea that one need pursue happiness, confounds the roots
of happiness being inborn.
This might seem subtle to some people, but an entire 200
years, and more has been encapsulated and replicated over and
over by this "truth".
Happiness is not pursued. It is realized.
You might call us all "enlightened out of the box" and
therefore the engagement of many social systems, namely those
in the Mike's 1st Tier (Graves reported them as CP, DQ, ER,
FS, and they were colored by Spiral Dynamics(R) as red, blue,
orange and green, and both agreed that six systems made up 1st
tier, adding AN, and BO, beige and purple), and most likely
brightened with the magna carta in 1215, I'm not enough of an
historian to note exactly, but some of you may be.
History aside, the idea that happiness must be pursued,
confuses the issue, in that, few, and I mean few, are able to
stop their goal-seeking attention systems from stopping to
consider why before they are off and running in pursuit.
Modernly, BS depends on that set of interdependencies, that
man, once given the goal, goes off in search of it.
If we were to just STOP for one second and consider the entire
idea of the phrase, we would realize that what Jefferson was
talking about was prosperity and not happiness, as at that
time, happiness was always a result of success, because of the
nature of meeting existential needs.
Jefferson wasn't wrong per se, just deluded by the nature of
existence, and in seeing that prosperity lifts people up,
noted that happiness could not possibly be fully within the
grasp of people who were suffering.
YET, in my life, I have seen people suffer happily, so what is
the deal with that, it didn't take prosperity for people to be
happy, as millions of years have been logged by homo sapien
and others, without really any conventional prosperity, but
the mere pursuit of daily needs--happiness already present?
I think this is a good question to ask yourself.
The entitlement perspective suggested by the phrase in the
declaration of independence is a cul de sac. We are then,
entitled to the definitions as they are made up by those who
are interpreting social perspective, and some of those, are
taking a lot of liberty with the meaning of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
While I appreciate the leeway given in these documents, the
declaration and the constitution, perhaps even in the magna
carta, but I have no real idea of what it said, although I did
visit the city in switzerland where I think it was signed, and
that was pretty cool--switzerland is a good place to visit,
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