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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460305" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Threats and Opportunities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here’s three cheers<br>for Jon Haidt, who’s reminded us<br>in ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’<br>that our lingering primitive selves<br>respond more quickly to a threat<br>than to an opportunity…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and thus, a more powerful emotional weapon<br>in the hands of politicians and journalists<br>and others with an axe to sharpen..<br>while astute moneymakers, more than the rest of us, <br>look always for an opportunity…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so President Bush hastens to warn us<br>that ‘Iran remains a threat’…<br>and so do you, George…and<br>so do bananaskins, and wet leaves<br>on a warming sidewalk after frost…<br>and polar bears to garbage cans -<br>themselves under our human threat<br>from global warming…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s a world of threats, and threats of threats…<br>wars and rumours of wars, as the good book says…<br>maybe I should stay in today…but then…<br>was this, then, how the West was won? <br>I think not…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some say, still say, that somewhere out there<br>there’s One who made a world<br>entirely of opportunities…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile, pity politicians<br>in a world of spin: <br>if Dubbya-doh came out tomorrow<br>all bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed (by security men…) <br>and announced in upbeat tones, <br>‘Iran remains a golden opportunity…’<br>we’d all turn to each other and say, <br>‘What’s he up to, then? ? ’<br>and oil shares would fluctuate...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">well, there you are… if boredom threatens at this point, <br>an ice-cold can of beer remains<br>a golden opportunity…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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in ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’
that our lingering primitive selves
respond more quickly to a threat
than to an opportunity…

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