December 17, 2003
Bhutan rejects GDP in exchange for Gross National Happiness balancing economic growth with cultural growth. They may have a point. Right or wrong, one thing is certain: It sure is purty.
Great post.
World's largest book is unveiled.
Happy to eat buffalo mozarella. Why not yak?
Mozzarella, mozzarela. I need coffee.
And another "l" in that second "mozzarella". Holy Jesus.
Also "developing"....de loping Yak is a whole 'nuther beast.
I'm also very interested in this:
Travelers & Magicians
a movie from bhutan made by one of its lamas.
Seconded re: homunculus above.
With added profanity for emphasis.
@#ck&%* Great Post
So many links, but so very interesting. Thankyou.
I post a thread on socioeconomics and yall get stuck on yak cheese?
Next thread will be on prairie oysters and hopefully we'll get the meaning of life.
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They're after our yak butter tea!
And after yak butter comes yeti...But be he monkey or be he ape?
I think the idea of Gross National Happiness is really interesting, I just hadn't had enough time lately to read all the links. Please keep posting on socioeconomics, if only to make social scientists feel special.
In Bhutan, it's happiness that counts
Gross International Happiness
I covered a somewhat analogous topic at kuro5hin, a year ago.
The main link in that write-up is now dead. Find the referenced lectures on this page(Scroll down to "Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures").
a movie from bhutan made by one of its lamas.
Here's an article about the lama and the movie.
You know, if my abilty to learn new languages hadn't evaporated when I was in my 40s, and if I hadn't discovered that spending a couple of weeks at an altitude of 1 mile makes my arthritis really bad, so 2 miles would be a real problem, and if I thought that I wouldn't wimp out over the lack of modern "amenities", I'd probably consider moving to a place that puts the happiness of its population in first place. Maybe. But the idea is attractive.
Well, if TV is there, happiness must be rapidly increasing. Next we can send them a MacDonalds so they can have their Happy Meals.
/sarcasm and sadness
In 1941, James Hilton, the British author of "Lost Horizon," was on a lecture tour of the United States. Inevitably, a reporter asked him: In all your wanderings, what's the closest you've found to a real-life Shangri-La? "A little town in northern California," the writer responded, presumably with a wistful, far-away look in his eye. "A little town called Weaverville."
No doubt China would dispute that, as they've got their own official Shangri-La.
"Kill, Kill!"
I'm also very interested in this: Travelers & Magicians
It's finally out on DVD.
"A little town called Weaverville."
*writes down on list of places to check out one of these days*
Jigme Singye Wangchuk will abdicate the throne in 2008 in favour of his 25-year-old son
Not what you expect to come home to after a hard day repairing the road
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