<ibshambat2004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> When a country suddenly gains more money than it has had in the past,
> there are two paths that it can take. One is known as economic growth
> - of money being invested into producing real wealth. The other is
> known as inflation - of things becoming more and more expensive, the
> money losing its value, and the gain being squandered.
>
> The same applies in human happiness. When state of affairs of any
> person improves, the two paths possible are happiness growth or
> expectation inflation. In the first case, the person joyfully embraces
> the improvements and becomes a happier person for them. Remaining
> grateful and appreciative for what he has that he did not have
> previously, he exists at a happier state. Any new improvements are
> likewise met joyfully and appreciatively and increase happiness. And
> the improvements are never taken for granted, but are appreciated in
> each case, resulting in ever greater happiness of the person.
>
> In the second case, the person begins to expects the new state of
> affairs. Instead of becoming happier, he instead requires more and
> more positive conditions to sustain the basic mental state. Sense of
> entitlement grows, requiring more and more to meet ever-growing
> expectations that take improvements for granted. The improvements are
> inflated away to feed the growing expectations. The demand grows out
> of control, the conditions from which one has hailed are forgotten,
> necessities grow beyond all measure, and more is required to sustain
> basic level.
>
> Both phenomena take place at the individual level as well as the
> collective. The current state of existence of most people in the First
> World would have been unthinkable to most people in history; and yet
> many take it as an entitlement. Frequently it makes sense to show
> people how life is elsewhere before they have sufficient appreciation
> to value the life that they have and the hundreds of millions of
> people who made it possible.
>
There be no more reason to question this fate afoul'd
than there be to willingly direct thine countenance
upon such apparitions, yeah even minions of Hell,
that work to render faith and sanity null and void.
A Kings ransom, the fairest maiden, the satisfaction of vengeance
upon the most wicked of transgressors,would not be payment enough
to replace what would be lost by denying that this denouement
is most assuredly deserved.
As we slumbered and murmered inane pleasantries and celebrated
with unbridled passions the works of our hands,
those we trusted to power reveled in our unparalelled appetite for
diversion
from accountability both to themselves and the state.
Such things had become mundane- mere trivialities, and
the technical ecstacy our machines had supposedly bestowed upon us
worked to underine our reason, our folly marched us visibly and
measurably
to what we though was the the apex of our enlightenment,while the levers
of both the power and the will to steer the ponderous ****p of state
slipped
away.
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