Michael J. Fox and the Gross National Happiness of Bhutan yazısına yapılan yorumlar http://www.serbestyazarlar.com/michael-j-fox-and-the-gross-national-happiness-of-bhutan.html "Düşünce, ayağa kalk !" Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:39:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Didem Aydın tarafından http://www.serbestyazarlar.com/michael-j-fox-and-the-gross-national-happiness-of-bhutan.html/comment-page-1#comment-638 Didem Aydın Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:39:33 +0000 http://www.serbestyazarlar.com/?p=3866#comment-638 Thanks a lot, Mark, for the gorgeous essay and the information on the fact that there is a place in the world where peoples' GNP is less important than their GNH. A couple of rhetorical questions and remarks need to be put though: 1. What does make Bhutanese people happy? (Being hopeful is certainly just an aspect of the total quality of life) 2. How do Bhutanese calculate their GNH? 3. Why should happiness be a good thing for there might be circumstances where you "should be" unhappy (for if you are unhappy about your terrible situation, you might be willing to "change" it (remembering the movie "Life is Beautiful" with Roberto Benigni?) 4. Elliot Aronson (a social psychologist) once wrote that people claim to be "happy" about certain negative situations particularly when it is impossible to change them (one of our kind's major defense mechanisms). 5. I am not going to make the infamous Californian orange joke:)) Well I admit, I do not know much about Bhurma. Thanks a lot for the great note. ODA Thanks a lot, Mark, for the gorgeous essay and the information on the fact that there is a place in the world where peoples’ GNP is less important than their GNH. A couple of rhetorical questions and remarks need to be put though:

1. What does make Bhutanese people happy? (Being hopeful is certainly just an aspect of the total quality of life)

2. How do Bhutanese calculate their GNH?

3. Why should happiness be a good thing for there might be circumstances where you “should be” unhappy (for if you are unhappy about your terrible situation, you might be willing to “change” it (remembering the movie “Life is Beautiful” with Roberto Benigni?)

4. Elliot Aronson (a social psychologist) once wrote that people claim to be “happy” about certain negative situations particularly when it is impossible to change them (one of our kind’s major defense mechanisms).

5. I am not going to make the infamous Californian orange joke:))

Well I admit, I do not know much about Bhurma. Thanks a lot for the great note.

ODA

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