>>>>The trouble with stating happiness as goal is that every now and then a new version of an old dogma would pop up and say that everyone is happy when they know their place, because that gives them stability and orientation. Which is just another excuse to reduce the mobility and enforce some sort of social stratification, anywhere between classes and castes.
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>>>Hmmm, I did not think of that before. You might have a point. However I still feel that striving for induvidual happyness should be a goal, even if it means we have to build some defences to try to avoid the threath you describe above.
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>>This idea of people being happiest when they know their place occurs in literature so many times (and in unexpected places) that I think its rate of circulation is not negligible.
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>Soviet people are the happiest people in the world. I knew it all time, though I guess that Yugoslavian people were also the happiest?


Don't forget Iraqis. They couldn't be happier now that we have brought democracy to their country.