Happiness is a MUST!
I was watching the interview of President Putin today, where he mentioned the word “Власти”, referring to “Government”, and when translated directly from Russian, it reads “Power”… remembering my conflict with the word GOVERNMENT and desire to change it to PUBLIC SERVICEMENT, and strong believe that even change in one word may help re-direct the attention of people in “power” to re-think their roles of “servicing” their societies and countries. I re-read a letter I sent last year to my classmate, the current Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay — sharing below without changes:
Sent: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 12:01 pm
Subject: Happiness as THE agenda for the nation / world
Dear Tshering,
I have been following all the post about you/of you: and was really pleased to read that you are leading your country towards the most precious goal — happiness. Just read that Dubai is “shifting” towards Happiness as main agenda)) What could happen if all countries and people accept and move towards this direction!!!!
I have written the attached note in Geneva, February 2015, during a Seed World Summit, after the panel on the future of banking… Not sure if there is anything that you are not already DOING, just wanted to share with you the thought on current world and where it should be — my strong believe is that we, as human beings, have only one “place” to go — building happiness of a single person as the cornerstone of all we are thinking and doing — perhaps the concept is old as the world, however we have moved way too far from it and if we continue, there will be no chance to return. I have attached the quick note and opened it up very little below (the text) to give few hints on the thinking (just few hints, did not want to take too much time, treat it as my contribution to brainstorming about Happiness) — with the technology and global world we, I believe, have a chance to make it happen on a global scale — we just need to make everyone move away from their “comfort” zone and start thinking, caring, working!
Wishing you all the best with your very challenging and fascinating mission.
Warm regards,
Gagik
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A new concept — HAPPINESS — for a human being
FROM CONSUMPTION CENTERED TO HAPPINESS CENTERED SOCIETY/WORLD
- Eliminate all barriers that keeps mankind moving to happiness
- Shift from Consumption phobia > to Education, Culture, Values
- Building Happiness GNA (maybe I wanted to say — “DNA”) & Centricity
Problem: Corporations — are profit centered, they are becoming “humanless”, an individual, no matter of rank/position/etc. has no influence where the “corporate” world is moving, with a senseless agenda of making profit by any mean (e.g. profiting on toys and tools and applications that harm his own child, his happiness, etc. to give a gross example). This is a total work avoidance by a mankind: we have surrendered to “machines” and “formulaes”, and work and live, act, without understanding for what. Capital centered world is “unable” to solve the main issues that we face — the world is becoming a place where no-one can be happy because of global phobia of consumption driven by technology and techniques: young generation has no “defence” or “immune system” to withstand what the current corporate world and governance directed by “profit” makes with them…
Productivity for money vs. productivity for happiness
Making the world really a global place for living (and not striving) — clean, safe, friendly — direct the energy of all towards making the world “happy” — we all do not need another pair of jeans, another car, another meal, another everything — should we be “re-coded” to care for less, and to care for others, we could make it happen…
There is NO need/place for violence, wars, crimes, greed — we are “raised” with wrong values and agenda — we need to re-program us, society, global world to serve the happiness of a single person. We all need to start appreciating the nature…
Move to where “Arbitrage” is > Direct resources to areas of high “arbitrage” — to bring markets/countries to balance with the developed world > remove ALL barriers that hinder free flow of capital and resources to those locations such as corruption, customs, taxes, cultural barriers, religion, …
➢ on the premise that the aim is to bring happiness to people, make people smile again and help/reach out for each other
Global budget built through voting by resources of an individual: let the person earning decide where his money (tax) should be spent:
Globalization of the world > limit the areas of “investment” into basics — giving each a “happiness” rank:
- Food
- Education
- Science
- Health
- Security
- Environment
- Space exploration
- Arts
- ….
By eliminating the “garbage”/consumption “drivers”, we could really focus on the main values that matter for us all.
P.S. Let's change GOVERNMENT into PUBLIC SERVICEMENT — we do not need others to “govern” us, we need certain services to be better organized as a society in moving towards happiness…
* - The note I have written on the plane...