The Happiness Fight ! Be Happy, it's your national duty!

[Rob5091]

The kids are n't happy enough, so drag that phone away from them and get them full of joy and glad expectations!
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/g...ope-down-global-happiness-ranking-2024-03-20/

Rising unhappiness among younger people has caused the United States and some large western European countries to fall down a global wellbeing index, while Nordic nations retain their grip on the top spots.
The annual World Happiness Report, opens new tab, launched in 2012 to support the United Nations' sustainable development goals, is based on data from U.S. market research company Gallup, analysed by a global team now led by the University of Oxford. While a global ranking of the happiness of those aged 60 and over would place the United States 10th, under 30s' life evaluations alone put the United States in 62nd place.
... a range of factors was likely to be lowering young peoples' happiness, including increased polarisation over social issues, negative aspects of social media, and economic inequality that made it harder for young people to afford their own homes than in the past.
While the phenomenon is starkest in the United States, the age gap in wellbeing is also wide in Canada and Japan, and to a decreasing extent in France, Germany and Britain, which all lost ground in this year's rankings.
By contrast, many of the countries with the biggest improvements in wellbeing are former communist countries in central and eastern Europe.

The worst thing is that rootin' tootin' Putin has brain washed Eastern Europe so they're all glad! Noooo!

 

[kingjr]

The kids are n't happy enough, so drag that phone away from them and get them full of joy and glad expectations!
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/g...ope-down-global-happiness-ranking-2024-03-20/

The worst thing is that rootin' tootin' Putin has brain washed Eastern Europe so they're all glad! Noooo!

Not quite, but close enough:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1bfto4a/youre_being_targeted_by_disinformation_networks

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1bfto4a/youre_being_targeted_by_disinformation_networks/


Read the whole thing, it's well worth it.



Also, from Aleksandr Dugin's Foundation of Geopolitics:

"It is especially important," [Dugin adds], "to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements-- extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics" .

Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics

tec.fsi.stanford.edu

 

[jmdirt]

Get out for a ride! I am nowhere near being a kid anymore, but being outside with the air rushing past me makes my mental health so much better. Sure the endorphins help, but there is just something about the air, the sound of my tires on the dirt, watching the raptors soaring...

 

[RedheadDane]

Hold on, this primarily about the US, and I'm from a Nordic country, so I can be as grumpy as I want!

 

[Rob5091]

Hold on, this primarily about the US, and I'm from a Nordic country, so I can be as grumpy as I want!

Grumpy? Anxious? Not full on 100% beaming with joy? Then, no welfare benefits for you! (if you live in the UK - see UK Guardian article )

He added the main reason for the changes was to provide better help and not cut costs, but he acknowledged the cost “has to be one of the considerations”.

 

[RedheadDane]

Grumpy? Anxious? Not full on 100% beaming with joy? Then, no welfare benefits for you! (if you live in the UK - see UK Guardian article )

I don't live in the UK.
No prize for guessing where I live.