{"id":1716,"date":"2009-03-13T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/2009\/03\/13\/the-good-life\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:34:36","slug":"the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"The Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Murray&#8217;s Irving Kristol lecture on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publications\/pubID.29531\/pub_detail.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Human Happiness<\/a>. Life in a social democracy might be pleasant, but it is rarely satisfying, and therefore lacks happiness.<\/p>\n<p>What to do about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/5224306.stm\" target=\"_blank\">the Danes and their high happiness<\/a>? The key to the Danes&#8217; happiness might be their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/08\/news\/danes.php\" target=\"_blank\">low expectations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading Charles Murray&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/What-Means-Libertarian-Charles-Murray\/dp\/0767900391%3FSubscriptionId%3D0PZ7TM66EXQCXFVTMTR2%26tag%3Dlarshvidbergs-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0767900391\">What It Means To Be A Libertarian<\/a> right now. Best &#8211; meaning simplest and most personally engaging &#8211; defence for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_liberalism\" target=\"_blank\">classical liberalism<\/a> I have read in a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Murray&#8217;s Irving Kristol lecture on Human Happiness. Life in a social democracy might be pleasant, but it is rarely satisfying, and therefore lacks happiness. What to do about the Danes and their high happiness? The key to the Danes&#8217; happiness might be their low expectations. I&#8217;m reading Charles Murray&#8217;s book What It Means To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=1716\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Good Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,24],"tags":[57,103,110,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}