Ah, a good reason to reread Ronald Purser's 2019 Guardian-article on The Mindfulness Conspiracy, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... 😇

Wikipedia also has an article about the ailment, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum..., as has the rationalwiki, rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum...

The positive psychology perversion of human psychology, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(p..., or something capital-else?

A perversion of a healthy conscience and social compassion, no doubt? I guess the stoicists were not ordinary people, who get really hurt and suffer? No wonder the modern elite is so fond of stoicist thoughts. Please, go back to their metaphysics and find out how hollow the whole ideology can be!

Only the abstract visible. 🤨

Outstanding, how Lucas Scripter carves a real niche between collapsing to all sorts of "projects" and outright laziness. Rest could be the "sabbath" every living thing needs, but is too shy to ask in the midst of authoritative requirements to be more productive and competent than you really are.

Rest as an achievement would indeed be an oxymoron. 😅

I guess the answer depends in part on what is meant by 'happiness'? See, e.g., Dan Haybron's SEP-entry: plato.stanford.edu/entries/happ...

Yes indeed. I like to think in terms of, e.g., epistemic security www.bbc.com/future/artic..., of which reliable production of knowledge is an integral part. The Wikiversity's Clear Thinking curriculum could be a valuable asset here more generally, en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Clear_T...

The SEP-entry on science and pseudoscience hasn't been updated since 2021, but parts of the demarcation-problem do remain, plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseu....

For somebody not so interested in well-known names and their opinions, SEP's take on the meaning-question is always invigorating plato.stanford.edu/entries/life..., maybe IEP's too iep.utm.edu/mean-ana/, and the common Wikipedia-article is not bad either en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning...

Next this: plato.stanford.edu/entries/epis...
or this: www.tandfonline.com/journals/tse...
or this: social-epistemology.com
? 😉

No wonder some are struggling with such choices, no matter whose ones: plato.stanford.edu/entries/suic...

SEP has decent entries on Death plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/, Voluntary Euthanasia plato.stanford.edu/entries/euth..., and Suicide plato.stanford.edu/entries/suic....

That would be a *reasonable* explanation. 😉

Sounds plausible. Something "in the air" might have reminded the world leaders of their own (empire's) mortality (ála Terror Management Theory), and a sub-conscious knee-jerk reaction might be just to grab all you can regardless of consequences. Maybe Putin's invasion of Ukraine went the same way?

Maybe try to pass the torch to (some of) the listeners? Even in their terms?

Excellent! "making truth-seeking more compelling than belief, maybe even fun". That's the way to go. 🙂 Luckily, even media like Wikiversity offer decent material for anybody interested in such endeavors, en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Clear_T...