tell me why we shouldn’t have a Dept of Homeland Happiness. A federal bureau of happiness?
There should be a non partisan happiness program to focus on the happiness of the people in this country.
Random Acts of Kindness. Bringing people together in community. Fostering loving relationships amongst people.
If you can investigate and prosecute crimes and sad depressing stuff, why not also investigate and attack unhappiness?
If you can tap a phone to listen in and see if someone is planning some terror attack, why can’t you tap a phone to find out why someone is sad and then help them to become happy?
A federal bureau of happiness would be more important and more effective than the federal bureau of investigation that we currently have!
That’s what Church, Family, and community is for. Also, “happiness” is hard for me to pin down. How can one ever achieve “happiness? It’s a fleeting feeling that can’t be measured or reliably reproduced.
I like the outside of the box thinking, but this is pie in the sky it seems.
A lot of unhappy people do not have access to Church, family, and community.
It is said emotions without logic leads to disaster. Instead of an agency for ‘happiness’, I can agree about a program for ‘wellbeing for americans’. A program that focuses on studies of what makes people happy, what are their disatisfactions, how to achieve happiness and wellbeing, and then focus on allocation of funding to try and make reasonable oportunities possible. This can be a good idea. I think the greatest method is to incentivize community, community events, and ways people can be brought together. I don’t think this will be possible in this point in time because people are more than likely too focused on survival in an hyper-inflated economy. Studies show a lack of families, marriages, and children. If this is happening, community is likely stagnant or likely only happening at workplaces.
Continuing, people will always be unhappy. People can define happiness in many ways. Crazy people with insane agendas and ideologies will never stop their crazy agendas based on emotion because there is a lack of logic and reason. It could be that their frontal lobe has been damaged or affected which prevents them from thinking rationally and logically. They can also be conditioned to be ideologically radicalized which can also be hard to change the way they think. Having a helpline can be helpful, but it likely wont stop a person from carrying out a radical or insane agenda. This is very naive thinking as true and absolute evil does in fact exist in this world. If you are never exposed to any such event or the brutal real and true realities of life, outside of secure and safe locations, then it’s easy to believe people are just unhappy and just need love, attention, and just want to be happy. When you physically see or experience evil, you’ll understand what I mean. Then it becomes a reality-check of how evil, molevolent, and derranged people can be.
The final thing I have to say is happiness always comes at a price. If you optimize systems and make it where good people get into office and pass legislation that is truly effective in building the country to where it allows for oportunity, security, community, less inflation, more families, and ways they can obtain their needs, the people will naturally become more happy.