tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post3121704199799008130..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Links 28 October 2022Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-17105896558429469432022-10-28T15:01:07.947-04:002022-10-28T15:01:07.947-04:00@szopeno
I wondered about that too. There wasn&#...@szopeno<br /><br />I wondered about that too. There wasn't anything in the David Brooks essay, which was really just a short opinion column in the New York Times. As for the original, official study, I don't know if they mentioned such issues or factored them in, or whatever.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456987412710878404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-37460321502019911762022-10-28T13:45:59.607-04:002022-10-28T13:45:59.607-04:00@David Re: this data about Chinese. Is there data ...@David Re: this data about Chinese. Is there data re their relationship status? There is huge surplus of Chinese males, I believe?szopenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096688483881484656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-8918437232934967502022-10-28T09:40:45.192-04:002022-10-28T09:40:45.192-04:00"Ahead of us is the most dangerous and unpred..."Ahead of us is the most dangerous and unpredictable decade since the end of WWII."<br /><br />Obviously Putin means whatever Putinish, threatening thing he means by this. But I've been thinking this for a while, and not just in the context of the Ukraine war or Trump. Even if it mainly amounts to a further slide into inequality and heat waves, things feel pretty grim.<br /><br />In the Brooks article, I was struck that 20% of Indians and 20% of Chinese rate themselves a zero on a scale of 0-10 in happiness, where ten is "your best life." I don't think this is the anomie of the safe and privileged. It's something worse.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456987412710878404noreply@blogger.com