[lbo-talk] Conservatives happier than liberals

Adam Souzis adamsz at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 12:43:20 PST 2006


ah, how did I forget the must obvious one?: "religion is the opiate of the masses" -- adam

On 2/27/06, Adam Souzis <adamsz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> as the article says: "Such puzzles show why social science is not for
> amateurs." methinks Will should have taken his own advise.
>
> so there's a correlation between people that self-identify as conservative
> and self-identify as "very happy". Whatever.
>
> i'll take an aphorism over a press release about a poll result any day...a
> couple come to mind:
>
> "ignorance is bliss"
>
> "the average man lives a life of quiet desperation"
>
> I suspect "conservatives" are more quiet about their desperation than
> "liberals"
>
> -- adam
>
> On 2/27/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
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> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/22/AR2006022202
> > 012.html?referrer=emailarticle
> >
> > It figures. Guilt tripping and malcontentedness seem to be
> > pre-requistes
> > for being on the left. Little wonder that some folks (like Horowitz or
> > Hitch) get tired of all this negativism after a while and jump the ship
> > ;)
> >
> > Wojtek
> >
> >
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