Don’t worry, be happy;  What kind of Fascist statement is that?
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I agree. So many humanitarian atrocities are perpetuated because people take refuge in apathy, and on a more trivial level, general prejudices and minor cruelties are allowed to persist because people don't want to be perceived as a troublemaker or as taking themselves too seriously. I'm into feminism and Marxism, and it doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humour, but the issues that matter to me I do take seriously. If we worry more about appearing easy-going than about criticising acts of aggressivity, there will never be social progress.\n\n(Deep breaths!) but do these things have to be opposed? Ranting is fun!
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Not infantile. Human. Hey who said there was anything wrong with wanting what you can't have?
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I think you have to have a happy medium.  There are certain things that should be taken seriously, but I don't think we should walk around like robots.
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Truthfulness is telling the truth.\n\nOptimism, the opposite of pessimism, exemplifies a lifeview where one looks upon the world as a positive place. Optimists generally believe that people and events are inherently good. They have a so-called "positive" outlook on life, believing that things will work out in the end. A common conundrum illustrates optimism versus pessimism with the question, does one regard a given glass of water as half full or as half empty? Conventional wisdom expects optimists to reply with half full and pessimists to respond with half empty.\n\nPhilosophers often link the concept of optimism with the name of Gottfried Leibniz, who held that we live in the "best of all possible worlds," a theodicy which Voltaire famously mocked in his satirical novel Candide. The philosophical pessimism of, for instance, Arthur Schopenhauer, provides an opposite pole to philosophical optimism.\n\nThe anarchist philosopher William Godwin demonstrated perhaps even more optimism than Leibniz. He hoped that society would eventually reach the state where calm reason would replace all violence and force, that mind could eventually make matter subservient to it, and that intelligence could discover the secret of immortality. (Some express surprise to learn that a freedom-loving anarchist like William Godwin disapproved of suicide, but his disapproval came from his optimistic view of suicide as almost always a mistake.)\n\nOveroptimism, or strong optimism, is the overarching mental state wherein people believe that things will more likely go well for them than go badly. Compare this with the valence effect of prediction, a tendency for people to overestimate the likelihood of good things happening rather than bad things.\n\nPersonal optimism correlates strongly with self-esteem, with psychological well-being and with personal health. Martin Seligman, in researching this area, criticises academics for focusing too much on causes for pessimism and not enough on optimism. He points out that in the last three decades of the 20th century journals published 46,000 psychological papers on depression and only 400 on joy.\n\nIdeologically convinced optimists may defend failures in their hoped-for outcomes by discussing "misplaced optimism" rather than abandoning optimism altogether.\n\nA number of scholars have suggested that, although optimism and pessimism might seem like opposites, in psychological terms they do not function in this way. Having more of one does not mean you have less of the other. The factors that reduce one do not necessarily increase the other. On many occasions in life we need both in equal supply. Antonio Gramsci famously called for "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will": the one the spur to action, the other the resilience to believe that such action will result in meaningful change even in the face of adversity.\n\nHope can become a force for social change when it combines optimism and pessimism in healthy proportions. John Braithwaite, an academic at the Australian National University, suggests that in modern society we undervalue hope because we wrongly think of it as a choice between hopefulness and naivity as opposed to scepticism and realism.
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if you're worried about what's 'allowed', you have deeper issues than wanting to wear womens' underwear\n\nnobody cares what you do, so do what makes you happy
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Who cares.  Go see America: Freedom to Fascism.  http://freedomtofascism.com.  It opens nationwide in theatres on July 28th.  It is written and directed by the guy that produced "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd.\n\nThen, you will find there is something more serious to worry about.
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The premise of the quote is rooted in the belief that first of all there is a 'truth' to be known.  And knowing that truth and being unhappy because of that truth is better then living under false pre-tense and feeling happy.  ie. having a girlfriend who you know is cheating on you and staying with her. Is better than being happy and not knowing that your girlfriend is cheating on you.\n\nI think the quote takes the possibly to the extreme.  The person who created this quote doesn't necessarily believe that the 'truth' means that someone will be unhappy.  Rather that the 'truth' is the most important thing.
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I agree, it is better to listen to positive material, than negative. And instead of, as Merle Haggarg once said in a song,"Running down my countrymen", well, the liberals (Socialists would be the proper name) do that everyday. Who wants to listen to a bunch of schoolyard bullies?
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NO, that does not make me happy, No one should be happy about the sadness of others, that is being cruel. The people would come in legaly if the US let them.The illegal people are not taken the jobs away from the Americans, what happens is that maybe they work harder and better than the Americans and that is way the they get the work.\n  For the people that are prejudists: PLEASE don't be so prejudist,all the people in America came as Imigrants in the first place. Don't be like that, your ancestors also where immigrats and you would not like that people were as prejudist with them as you are being now.
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This is a symptom of a national disease. That disease is apathy. There is a value assigned to all thing according to rarity. Objects, beauty, the quality of life, even relationships. The more you have of something, or the less you had to work to get it, the less value you attache to it. This isn't a bad thing, it is completely natural. In nature there is competition and typically, the stuff that life needs to continue living, will be the stuff that is hard to find.\nAs a generation of Americans without any great war or great tagedy to scare us into caring about the things we have, we care very little about the luxuries we possess, the freedoms we enjoy, and in turn we run everything we have into the ground. We are apathetic to how our great government is run and don't even pay attension when the corperations take over and start wittleing away our freedoms. We are apethitic to each other and the happiness of our neighbors so we drive like selfish pricks, or we lie, or we otherwise treat eachother like crap. We do this because there has been no hardship big enough in any of our lives to teach us the real value of things. The real value of forming a brotherhood with our fellow Americans and doing good for goodness' sake. Also this process is what allows us to not be interested in how the defination of freedom is being changed. We have freedom taken away bit by bit. In increments so small it looks harmless. But eventualy we will all look up and realize that whatever isn't defined by the law is ilegal. This is fascism. It is a shame. This is a cycle that has been evedent throughout the history of Man. \n1) Things are awefull\n2) War against hardship to make life good\n3) Happiness and prosperity for 3-4 generations\n4) Decline\n5) War, etc.\nThis is sad, but it is the way things work. And it continues to happen because most people don't realize that this is the cycle. And until there is a great catastrophy to make us care about the things we have it will continue to decay.
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Because in a fascist leaning society, the "official mouthpieces" need to be mimicked, no need to research anything or think for yourself...you have a "decider" at the helm of your personal life now :)
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Fascism,gotta love it!\nAs to your question, I find liberals are generally people who are close minded, full of themselves, and desperate to be 'in'. I also find them in large annoying numbers at our local coffee bars, spouting their rhetoric. poop!
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First, this isn't a question but rather a political statement.\n\nSecondly, it is based on wishes and not reality.
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No, it is not OK. Being a Nazi wasn't a religion. It was a self-serving belief.
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We are only happy if there is a possibilty to be sad. if we have everything, we have no reason to be sad, so we're not happy. but we forget that if we lose everything, we can be sad too. so be happy.
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Go ahead and say it.\n\nAnd to respond to what someone said above, rioting and killing innocent people every time you getyour way is nothing to be proud of either, so why the "balck pride" stickers?
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is that questino meant to be ironic?