34157TrammelantOlifantErdogan: TurkseSchurkdoetgek

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DESPITE OUR
UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENTS
IN THE LAST FEW DECADES, IT IS FAR FROM OBVIOUS
THAT CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE SATISFIED
THAN THEIR ANCESTORS IN BYGONE YEARS? Indeed, it is an ominous sign
that despite higher prosperity, comfort and security, the rate of suicide in the developed world
is also much higher than in traditional societies! In Peru, Haiti, the Philippines and Ghana - developing countries
suffering from poverty and political instability - fewer than five people in 100,000 commit suicide each year.......
In rich and peaceful countries such as Switzerland, France, Japan and New Zealand, more than 10 people per
100,000 take their own lives annually! In 1985 South Korea was a relatively poor country, bound by strict
traditions and rules by an authoritarian regime. Today South Korea is a leading economic power, its citizens are
among the best educated in the world, and it enjoys a stable and comparatively liberal democratic regime? Yet
whereas in 1985 about nine South Koreans per 100,000 killed themselves, today the annual rate of suicide is 36
per 100,000. There are of course opposite and far more encouraging trends?! Thus the drastic decrease in child
mortality has surely brought an increase in human happiness, and partially compensated people for the stress
in modern life!? Still, even if we are somewhat happier than our ancestors, the increase in our well-being is far
less than we might have expected. In the Stone Age, the average human had at his or her disposal about 4,000
calories of energy per day. This included not only food, but also the energy invested in preparing tools, clothing,
art & campfires! Today Americans use on average 228,000 calories of energy per person per day, to feed not
only their stomachs but also their cars, computers, refrigerators & televisions.
The average American thus uses 60 times more energy than the average
Stone Age hunter-gatherer. Is the average American 60 times happier?
We may well be sceptical about such rosy views! In the meantime
let's send Gökmen Tanis to his Erdogans! Irritante schreeuwlelijkerds
like truttige Thierry Baudet to France and
gek Geertje Wilders to Hungaria or
Indonesia & all other
misfits to the
moon or
Mars?

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