Monthly Archives: February 2022
A More Perfect Happiness
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, … Continue reading
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Quotidian Happiness
This week I jumped through hoops. There was the preventative health hoop, the bureaucratic hoop, the authoritarian hoop, the capitalist hoop; all more pronounced this week, creating more discomfort and more pain than they do most weeks. I found it … Continue reading
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Happiness-at-the-expense-of-another
To justify the-existence-of-one-thing-at-the-expense-of-another. It is the relationship that is disconcerting. The one-thing can be one’s self; usually a rich, powerful and/or entitled self. The one-thing can be an ideology, or a doctrine, or an organization, or an individual other than … Continue reading
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Happiness: Unimaginative Simplicity
“It’s fair because it’s the rule.” It’s fair because it’s how we’ve always done it. It’s fair because it’s how it is. It’s fair because it’s how it should be. I do not agree with the statements above, but this … Continue reading
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