SLI Sector
13-10-2005, 15:07
Now, note that I am posting this resolution for an ally of mine...SECTOR KLF, to see what you think of this resolution. I did not write the resolution. Please read it carefully and give it your best thought. Post here so I can foward your comments/concerns to the leader of Sector KLF. If you have any suggestions for improvements to this resolution, please tell so.
Thank you.
-Vicki-Y, SLI Sector's Ambassdor to the UN
"In an ideal world we’d all be happy. There can be little argument that every one of us would like to be happy with their life. A happy citizen is a content citizen. You might say that to be happy is goal enough for most people. But what of the other benefits of happiness? Let’s consider the following truths.
a. A happy citizen is a productive citizen. A happy citizen has much more time and energy to put towards more positive ideals and goals, helping promote utopian visions and miracle cures. A happy citizen does not give up. A happy citizen cannot fail or, at the very least will laugh at his mistakes and learn from them. A happy citizen is a team-player.
b. A happy citizen doesn’t complain. A happy citizen has nothing to complain about, and therefore doesn’t encourage others to feel unhappy with their situation by complaining. Conversely, an unhappy citizen will complain. They will tend to blame others for their failures, for everything they lack or lose. Those around them may agree, in which case they will spread more unhappiness by fueling it, or will disagree and internalise their own unhappiness. Neither scenario is particularly encouraging.
c. A happy citizen is not a violent citizen. A happy citizen is more likely to avoid confrontation and more likely to encourage team-work and constructive criticism. Conversely an unhappy citizen will lash out in anger, and foster unnecessary and irrational hatred towards his fellow man, for deeds both exaggerated or fabricated by the unhappy mind.
d. A happy citizen doesn’t feel the need to go out and commit violent crimes. A happy citizen will be perfectly happy to enjoy genuine and legal pass-times that do not endanger, threaten or hurt their fellow man. A happy citizen knows there is more to get out of friendly social pastimes than there are to indulge in violent crimes. Most violent crimes are the province of solitary predator types or antagonised mobs. A happy society does not encourage either extreme.
e. A happy citizen doesn’t have the need to over-indulge in corrupting and dubious pass-times, such as alcohol or high-risk drugs. Whilst a happy citizen might well feel free to ‘experiment’, they wouldn’t see the benefits of addicting one-self to a drug or intoxicant in order to provide an artificially maintained happiness. An unhappy citizen might seek escape in such things, but were they able to find happiness elsewhere they would not need this social crutch. Government-recommended medication is not covered by this point – a citizen who requires medication to counter illness or depression is not choosing the drug as an escape, but as the ability to remain a useful member of society.
Which brings us back to point a.
Think about it. All the world’s problems have come from those who have been unhappy. Not happy enough to coexist with their fellow man, not happy enough to help out their fellow man in times of need. Unhappy citizens desperate try to accu.mulate things to make them happy, seeking to hoard money and resources, or steal it from other people. Unhappy citizens don’t listen to those that would advise or lead them. Unhappy citizens turn to intoxicants, angry music and angstful poetry to ease their suffering. Unhappy citizens seek irrational solutions, improbable answers, radical and unworkable dystopian visions.
What does this tell you? Obviously, unhappiness is a bad thing. Happiness should be mandatory.
Ironically, it isn’t easy to force people to be happy in a world which isn’t ideal, and yet for the world to be ideal people should be happy. Therefore certain measures should be taken to encourage and support happiness - we must change the world in order to make it one in which citizens can naturally be happy. By constantly bombarding the populous with messages of happiness and love, by constantly playing cheerful music in public places, by constantly ensuring their diets contain just the right amount of anti-depressants, by constantly ensuring that all citizens love their neighbours, by constantly providing people with so many consumer choices to make them feel free and alive and in control of their own destinies, by being constantly VIGILANT for any sign of unhappiness, we can make this world a shiny happy world full of shiny happy people. Holding hands.
Here’s to that happy vision!"
Thank you.
-Vicki-Y, SLI Sector's Ambassdor to the UN
"In an ideal world we’d all be happy. There can be little argument that every one of us would like to be happy with their life. A happy citizen is a content citizen. You might say that to be happy is goal enough for most people. But what of the other benefits of happiness? Let’s consider the following truths.
a. A happy citizen is a productive citizen. A happy citizen has much more time and energy to put towards more positive ideals and goals, helping promote utopian visions and miracle cures. A happy citizen does not give up. A happy citizen cannot fail or, at the very least will laugh at his mistakes and learn from them. A happy citizen is a team-player.
b. A happy citizen doesn’t complain. A happy citizen has nothing to complain about, and therefore doesn’t encourage others to feel unhappy with their situation by complaining. Conversely, an unhappy citizen will complain. They will tend to blame others for their failures, for everything they lack or lose. Those around them may agree, in which case they will spread more unhappiness by fueling it, or will disagree and internalise their own unhappiness. Neither scenario is particularly encouraging.
c. A happy citizen is not a violent citizen. A happy citizen is more likely to avoid confrontation and more likely to encourage team-work and constructive criticism. Conversely an unhappy citizen will lash out in anger, and foster unnecessary and irrational hatred towards his fellow man, for deeds both exaggerated or fabricated by the unhappy mind.
d. A happy citizen doesn’t feel the need to go out and commit violent crimes. A happy citizen will be perfectly happy to enjoy genuine and legal pass-times that do not endanger, threaten or hurt their fellow man. A happy citizen knows there is more to get out of friendly social pastimes than there are to indulge in violent crimes. Most violent crimes are the province of solitary predator types or antagonised mobs. A happy society does not encourage either extreme.
e. A happy citizen doesn’t have the need to over-indulge in corrupting and dubious pass-times, such as alcohol or high-risk drugs. Whilst a happy citizen might well feel free to ‘experiment’, they wouldn’t see the benefits of addicting one-self to a drug or intoxicant in order to provide an artificially maintained happiness. An unhappy citizen might seek escape in such things, but were they able to find happiness elsewhere they would not need this social crutch. Government-recommended medication is not covered by this point – a citizen who requires medication to counter illness or depression is not choosing the drug as an escape, but as the ability to remain a useful member of society.
Which brings us back to point a.
Think about it. All the world’s problems have come from those who have been unhappy. Not happy enough to coexist with their fellow man, not happy enough to help out their fellow man in times of need. Unhappy citizens desperate try to accu.mulate things to make them happy, seeking to hoard money and resources, or steal it from other people. Unhappy citizens don’t listen to those that would advise or lead them. Unhappy citizens turn to intoxicants, angry music and angstful poetry to ease their suffering. Unhappy citizens seek irrational solutions, improbable answers, radical and unworkable dystopian visions.
What does this tell you? Obviously, unhappiness is a bad thing. Happiness should be mandatory.
Ironically, it isn’t easy to force people to be happy in a world which isn’t ideal, and yet for the world to be ideal people should be happy. Therefore certain measures should be taken to encourage and support happiness - we must change the world in order to make it one in which citizens can naturally be happy. By constantly bombarding the populous with messages of happiness and love, by constantly playing cheerful music in public places, by constantly ensuring their diets contain just the right amount of anti-depressants, by constantly ensuring that all citizens love their neighbours, by constantly providing people with so many consumer choices to make them feel free and alive and in control of their own destinies, by being constantly VIGILANT for any sign of unhappiness, we can make this world a shiny happy world full of shiny happy people. Holding hands.
Here’s to that happy vision!"