Is anyone happy though?

[festival of snickers]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/14/60minutes/main3833797.shtml

they say danes are happy people

(CBS) Happiness is that quirky, elusive emotion that the Declaration of Independence maintains we have every right to pursue. And we do pursue it: we are suckers for an endless stream of self-help books that promise a carefree existence for a mere $24.95; and television hucksters of every kind claim they have the key to Nirvana. So the happiness business, at least, is one big smiley face.

As for the rest of us, the main scientific survey of international happiness carried out by Leicester University in England ranks the U.S. a distant 23rd, well behind Canada and Costa Rica. But you'll be pleased to know we beat Iraq and Pakistan.

And the winner, once again as correspondent Morley Safer reports, is Denmark.

[marky 54]

i think this has more to do with how happy they are living in that country, rather than general happiness.

which is reflective of the people who run it. but how they can tell or how they decide this stuff is greater than the mystery of the question "why are we here"

why do they bombard us with useless unimportant information?
actually no need to answer that.

[uselesseater]

Well it would appear that something isn't rotten in the state of Denmark afterall.

But then they do like their strategic cartoons.

[Reflecter]

Hmmm... I have to wonder whether this analysis of Denmark by a UK Policeman and ex-patriot could be figuring in this surveys results. It certainly mirrors my own experience there as a youth.

Brave New Denmark
http://www.rense.com/general79/brave.htm