Happiness is the opposite of what Hollywood tell you

 

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Happiness is the opposite of what Hollywood or globalists tell you

Americans are an unhappy lot, and they're growing less happy by the year. That's according to the World Happiness Report (WHR) which is based on Gallup polling and sponsored by United Nations-linked globalist organizations.

[Ed Note:  Leftists and their media allies drive division in this nation].

America dropped from the 13th-happiest country in 2016 to the 16th-happiest in 2019-21, just ahead of Czechia, Bahrain and Slovenia and behind lockdown-loving New Zealand. The United States saw happiness levels drop significantly in the WHR from 2005-2007 and again from 2013-2015.

The report tells us that even though "Positive emotions have generally been twice as prevalent as negative ones, that gap has been narrowing over the past ten years, with enjoyment and laughter on a negative trend in most regions and worry and sadness on rising trends."

So why is everyone so unhappy? The authors of the WHR attribute American unhappiness to lack of institutional trust, income inequality, obesity, the opioid epidemic and a "depression epidemic."

Certainly income inequality, obesity, an opioid epidemic and a depression epidemic all exist. But blaming a lack of trust in institutions? That is a statist notion if there ever was one. America was founded on mistrust of government, standing armies, and the power of the state. The fact that the United Nations thinks happiness in based on whether or not people trust government should tell you all you need to know about that particular metric.

The reports also cites a lack of "social trust" as a source of unhappiness. "Individuals with high social and institutional trust levels were happier than those living in less trusting and trustworthy environments. The benefits of high trust were especially great for those in conditions of adversity, including ill-health, unemployment, low income, discrimination and unsafe streets."

A more direct list of Leftist talking points would be hard to conjure up. The report goes further and posits that "Trust and cooperative social norms ... demonstrate to people the extent to which others are prepared to do benevolent acts for them and the community in general ... especially where government responses are considered to be sufficiently timely and effective."

In other words, The United Nations wants you to think that people are happier when the government is effective and taking care of everyone.

What drivel.

Government social welfare programs are destructive to the individual and the family unit because they absolve the parents of their parental responsibilities and promote dependency on government.

According to a report in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, when people get their basic necessities from government, government becomes their god.

Researchers found that in countries where government services were "better" (what they meant by better was never defined), people were less "religious." This was true among the studied countries and among states in the U.S. Researchers also discovered that during the period 2008-2013, better government services in the states in a specific year predicted lower religiosity one to two years later.

Most people believe that social welfare programs are designed to help the needy and the downtrodden despite 50 years of evidence that U.S. welfare programs have done just the opposite. In fact, social programs are destructive to the family unit. And this report shows they are destructive to the Church (and by Church, I'm referring to the Church established on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2, not the Roman Catholic Church).

We now see these problems manifesting themselves in a myriad of ways, not the least of which is the increase in harassment and sexual abuse of women and children. The policies and actions of the elites in government and the Hollyweird crowd have destroyed morality and pushed on us a social and moral depravity in the name of love. We have been neutralized with the love syndrome.

However, true love is clearly defined by Jesus himself. When asked what was the greatest commandment, Jesus told the Pharisees and Sadducees, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.

Believe it or not, a very high percentage of people don't love themselves, much less God or their neighbors. How can we tell? Because they are usually selfish. They don't give to the poor or do for others. They depend on government to provide social services. They are unable to walk in other people's shoes. Their focus is totally on themselves.

Surveys show that among conservatives and leftists of similar means, conservatives give far more to charity and donate far more of their time to others than leftists. Leftists believe in social welfare far greater than conservatives. Social welfare programs create a belief in the public mind that since our earnings are expropriated by the state and distributed to the "poor," we have done our duty to the poor when we "pay our taxes." If this is our attitude, then we are falling short of God's command to both help the poor and the downtrodden. We are not showing a love for our neighbors.

The goal of government is to coerce the people into a regimented, docile and obedient mass under a propaganda system based on altruism and self-sacrifice, and so it seeks to undermine the individual, the family unit and the basic tenets of Christianity. The result is that Christianity still has its name, its churches and its forum, but it no longer has its spirit.

Every human action creates a reaction. Start being conscious of this and you will become happy out of your mind.

Examples: Smile at someone and they will smile back. When someone pulls in front of you, wave at him instead of tooting your horn. Compliment people and they will feel good and like themselves, and you. And you will like yourself better. Love someone and they will love you back. Do small favors for people and they will respond. It's not government benevolence that makes us happy. It's loving ourselves and our neighbors — not the fake "love" promoted by Hollywood and the Universalist churches and the globaloney United Nations statists.

These steps toward happiness cost nothing, but they pay life dividends when you show consideration of the world around you. Every negative thing you do and think is reversed in like measure back to you. Every positive thing you do is reversed back to you in like measure.

If you bargain with life for a penny, life will pay no more.

If we fulfilled our obligations to each other — individually, through a Church or through various charities (church-based and secular) — there would be no need for government welfare programs and therefore no perceived need for confiscatory plunder to fund these programs. This would not only limit government power and expand individual liberty, it would remove government as an exalted God in the minds of the people.

And people would be much happier.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter^®

 

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