Friday, September 10, 2004

wonderful

i was about to type out some lyrics from the everclear song with the abovementioned name but i realized that would be a bit pas bon. so i was thinking as i sometimes do whats the deal with this happiness thing. while there are about a million ways to dissect this heres how i worked it out in my head:
1. current situation
2. future prospects

so if i have sex with keira knightley everynight that falls under category #1 and if for some deranged reason i'm under the impression i will be in the forseeable future that goes into #2. having a good time in college? 1. got into a good college and excited to go? 2. for the most part anything that can go into one group can go in another. so boom all we have to do to install me as world leader is to deceive everyone that they have tremendous future prospects a la matrix without the matrix if you follow me.

remember that question, if u could choose money, power, or fame (with the implication u cant use one to acquire the other) which one would u choose? so the answer is power. hands down. and hands up! simon didnt say! step to the side.

and now wyclef just said yo what up its wyclef. whoa he made a song called 911??? and i have it? trippy. downloaded hero, apparently its a good movie so i have high hopes. amalia wins the wack award for having non-service on her cell / avoiding me (!! bitch).

ok so back to the happiness theme. for most people, more of our happiness lies in category 2 because well we dont really know what the deal is. we have all these expectations and aspirations like falling in love, getting a job, buying a house, consistently having amazing sex (this is more a male thing perhaps), and so on. but then you think OK well lets turn to our category 1 happinesses. those, for most people on the planet, are category 2 happinesses. Without lecturing, most people don't have proper nutrition, water supply, shelter, and so on. We are New Yorkers (well... sorry Bruce) and that in itself is a life-goal for millions I'm sure. The interesting thing is that none of this really matters because even though we have all of these #1's we're not necessarily happier than those who have them as #2's. And people who have our #2's as their #1's are usually not happy (who wants to be old?) So maybe this theory is a little flawed. We need to assign values. but thats near impossible cuz this is abstract stuff we're talking about. but they manage to do it in microeconomics.. utils? whats that rubbish about. well i dont know but if they do it i can do it too. your total happiness (in hapils) = sum of #2 happinesses + #1 happinesses (this latter # will be negative, for example, if you are most people in the world and don't have the adequate living conditions abovementioned). ok so thats a start. next we can put a maximum on the hapils on each kind of happiness sooo sex for example might have a maximum of 1000 whereas material possessions / acquisition might have 300. here is where it gets dicey. Sex, for example, provides more hapils as a category 1 than as a 2 cuz shit, anyone no matter how legitimately i might think i'm sleeping with keira knightley next week its not quite as nice as actually doing it or having done so. Material possessions, on the other hand, often provide more hapils as a 2 because once you have (that house or jaguar for example) you got what u wanted, and thats the end of it. not that excited about it anymore are you? didn't think so. and then there's the simple fact that for some the material hapil max may be more than sex (lets call them for convenience sake conservatives). so in order to carry out my plan of world domination via making everyone happy i need to efficiently allocate happiness. i think i'm on the right track. by the way you can still call me p-master funk when im hegemon. hakuna matata.

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