How to be happy

**bola** · 10th-December-2008

How to be happy | Psychology Today Blogs
By Satoshi Kanazawa on December 07, 2008 in The Scientific Fundamentalist

One of the things that evolution has done is to make men and women very different. In some ways (though not in others), males of one species are often more similar to males of other species than to females of their own species, and vice versa. In some ways, in many ways, men are more similar to male chimpanzees or gorillas than to women. One of the ways that men and women are different is in what makes them happy.

Forget what feminists, hippies, and liberals have told you in the last half century. They are all lies based on political ideology and conviction, not on science. Contrary to what they may have told you, it is very unlikely that money, promotions, the corner office, social status, and political power will make women happy. Similarly, it is very unlikely that quitting their jobs, dropping out of the rat race, and becoming stay-at-home dads to spend all their times with their children will make men happy.

Men and women are very different, because they are designed by millions of years of evolution to be very different. Women cannot become happy by pretending to be men, and men cannot become happy by pretending to be women. Swedes have already tried that, and they have failed massively and spectacularly.

What can evolutionary psychology tell us about what we as a society can do so as not to repeat the Swedish mistake and make our citizens happy? The best thing to do is to kill all the feminists and hippies and liberals. Destroy political correctness completely once and for all. Teach boys and girls that they are different, not the same, and that it’s okay (nay, wonderful) to be different. One is not right and the other is not wrong. Stop telling girls that they are inferior versions of boys, as feminists have done for the last half century, or, as has more recently been the case, stop telling boys that they are inferior versions of girls.

**bachelor tom** · 10th-December-2008

No! It can't be true! We're new improved humans, we're better than our ancestors, we've evolved beyond those old behaviours! We can be anything we want! We can turn our backs on nature, we're post-modern sophisticated global citizens now!

*gag, cough*

**GrizzlyPenguin** · 10th-December-2008

Not only that, but men and women will continue to have complimentary reproductive systems even when one gender evolves higher than the other!

I'd say give me a break, but I fear I might evolve into a kit-kat commercial.

**Kim** · 10th-December-2008

Great article, Bola, thank you for sharing.

**Stan** · 10th-December-2008

Destroy political correctness completely once and for all. Teach boys and girls that they are different, not the same, and that it’s okay (nay, wonderful) to be different.

I just read an article in the paper this morning about the US needing to revise education. Especially in math and science.

At one time those with an interest and talent for these academic areas were given enriched study opportunities in special schools, classes, or harder courses.

This has been deemphacized for many years now. It is politically incorrect. Especially since more males than females excel at math and science.

Other kids without strong math / science potential and that could not do well in those areas might feel bad. So it was cut for everyone.

The article concluded with the need to allow the talented to succeed and develop their talent. What a novel idea!

**bachelor tom** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from Stan

I just read an article in the paper this morning about the US needing to revise education. Especially in math and science.

At one time those with an interest and talent for these academic areas were given enriched study opportunities in special schools, classes, or harder courses.

This has been deemphacized for many years now. It is politically incorrect. Especially since more males than females excel at math and science.

Other kids without strong math / science potential and that could not do well in those areas might feel bad. So it was cut for everyone.

The article concluded with the need to allow the talented to succeed and develop their talent. What a novel idea!

No! That would be hierarchical and discriminatory! We are all equal, we can't allow someone to feel inferior!

**Stan** · 10th-December-2008

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No! That would be hierarchical and discriminatory! We are all equal, we can't allow someone to feel inferior!

Equality for people does NOT mean equality of outcome or results.

If you make the results all turn out equal then this means we are striving to achieve the lowest common denominator.

**bachelor tom** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from Stan

Equality for people does NOT mean equality of outcome or results.

If you make the results all turn out equal then this means we are striving to achieve the lowest common denominator.

The evolutionary model supports the observation that men's abilities spread towards extremes, while women's tend to cluster towards the middle of the spectrum

The program to "feminize" men is in part about reducing their achievement potential to the mushy middle where women have always been

The egalitarian utopia will have no genius and no idiocy, just boring people pretty much the same as their neighbours

**Stan** · 10th-December-2008

Quote from bachelor tom

The evolutionary model supports the observation that men's abilities spread towards extremes, while women's tend to cluster towards the middle of the spectrum

The program to "feminize" men is in part about reducing their achievement potential to the mushy middle where women have always been

The egalitarian utopia will have no genius and no idiocy, just boring people pretty much the same as their neighbours

Well any countries competing on the global stage that allow the talented to thrive will do better.

The rest can just buy things from them.