RE: Joining a club, happiness, Durkheim and Marx
I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER". - Groucho Marx From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx On Sep 2, 8:45 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Joining a club can provide a lot more happiness than salary increases > and promotion. Durkheim and Marx produced concepts of alienation and > anomie - Freud 'normal unhappiness' and most of us know what it is to > be lonely, what happens when we move, mates leave and so on - or even > the 'bowling alone' syndrome of the collapse of organic solidarity as > opposed to more mechanical structuring of society. Most science in > this area, mostly brain-mind science is coming round to regarding us > as social animals. Farmers are well aware of what happens to stock > when they are stressed. Too many students don't enjoy classes or > study, feeling it all imposed, something not to enjoy and so on. My > grandson has just had a row with his mother over (not) getting out of > bed to go for a new school blazer - she wants to stop him going > paintballing tomorrow - happiness being something he can be deprived > of for discipline purposes. I have noticed many people interfering > with my happiness over the years and plenty who get happy doing this > to others. > Kids enjoy handing about with each other and in doing so can make > others very unhappy. King Mouse in social mice, makes other mice > 'unhappy' - and human communities in history have specialised in this. > Empirical work in the area might use experimental results, but what's > empirical here is what people are experiencing. Are we really 'happy' > consuming junk products made by forced child labour or workers being > paid less than slaves once cost to maintain? Letting certain kids > show indiscipline hurts other kids and 'tough love' has a role in > happiness. > > On Sep 1, 3:14 pm, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/happiness-philosophy-...
