Happiness Index and Its Relationship to Disposable Personal Income in the US
Just saw this -- economic, political, and cultural unreality in America first comes home to roost in 2009-2010
Just Who Are the Unhappy People -- and Where and How Do They Live, and Just Who Do They Vote for? showed a plummet in overall American happiness that bottomed out at about 2009-2010:
Compare this graph to that provided here demonstrating that in the US happiness levels became minimal once savings and earnings were no longer able to support long-term, historical American living standards:
Yes, Virginia, there really is no longer a Santa Claus. So, it’s past time to straighten up and fly right…1
Straighten Up And Fly Right
Nat King Cole
A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything
Was on the square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey
Off his back
The monkey grabbed his neck and said
"Now listen, Jack..."
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top
Ain't no use in divin'
What's the use of jivin'?
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top
The buzzard told the monkey
You are chokin' me
Release your hold, I will set you free
The monkey looked the buzzard right
Dead in the eye and said
"Your story's so touching, but it sounds just like a lie"
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top
Fly right!
The time to compose and post this blurb comes courtesy of my wife’s suggestion that I take 1/2 the day off today from working on outside chores. Before that happy point, I did find this interesting watermelon in our main garden. This patterning is reportedly the result of the action of a virus carried by aphids. Me, I suspect mini-aliens are responsible: