tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30136383.post4805020560362102789..comments2024-03-07T10:17:41.979+00:00Comments on the tap: Cameron Is Enlightenment In Marxist ClothesTapestryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30136383.post-51343678160458844972006-10-26T00:20:00.000+00:002006-10-26T00:20:00.000+00:00I'm not sure how to express a value like Contentme...I'm not sure how to express a value like Contentment as a statistic. I was seeing it as a cultural emphasis to be encouraged, while its opposite number Jealousy is discouraged. Political leaders are in a unique position to influence behaviour without making any laws, or providing statistical justification. Values can be expressed in words, or in behaviour.Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30136383.post-82947452923353900372006-10-25T15:24:00.000+00:002006-10-25T15:24:00.000+00:00I suppose national contentment could be measured a...I suppose national contentment could be measured as a basket in the same way that inflation is measured. Some of my constituents would be the crime rate, GDP per person, the minimum wage...What would you include?Whispering Wallshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03410656699815679312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30136383.post-88270467937951552552006-10-25T15:02:00.000+00:002006-10-25T15:02:00.000+00:00How do you measure national or global contentment?...How do you measure national or global contentment?Whispering Wallshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03410656699815679312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30136383.post-34636242751632815532006-10-25T14:24:00.000+00:002006-10-25T14:24:00.000+00:00Re your comment - I wrote that the Enlightenment p...Re your comment - I wrote that the Enlightenment permitted individuals to live within their own consciences - the opposite to Islam. Pre-Enlightenment people were hung for blasphemy. Heretics were burned at the stake. <br /><br />I'm advocating a more modern version of the Enlightenment for the Cameron age - based on human feeling - making Contentment the ideal condition, and the definition of human success. Islam means submission, a return to the pre-Enlightenment era.<br /><br />Cameron's GWB is close except he saw that as in conflict with GDP materialism. I see contentment as the most productive mind-state for a human being, as well as being the highest reward.Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30136383.post-24124263531712680122006-10-25T14:08:00.000+00:002006-10-25T14:08:00.000+00:00Hi - I'm replying to your reply on the Tory blogsi...Hi - I'm replying to your reply on the Tory blogsite. You say that Islamism believes that individuals must live within their own conscience. I thought that's what Christianity believes and that this was one of the tenets which cultural Marxism was trying to destroy?Whispering Wallshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03410656699815679312noreply@blogger.com