Some people are going to be unhappy no matter what

Some people are going to be unhappy no matter what.

There is a small subsection of the population that loves to loudly complain about their lot in life, about reality, about our inherent differences, about the weather, about other people, etc. No matter how positive their lives are, they will find something to complain about, as that is their nature.

The healthy response to this moaning is to tell them to shut up and stop whining, perhaps reminding them how good their lives really are and how annoying complaining is. Nobody likes a chronic complainer.

In the postwar period, something changed; we got too soft and started to listen to the whingeing as if it were important. Even worse, subversive external groups began to foment discontent among our women and youth. Soon, people blamed the normal discomforts of growing up and life on oppression.

The malcontents were sold a load of lies about the reasons why they were unhappy. They were told that the systems and culture that were in place to protect and civilize them were actually an evil plot to oppress them. They were manipulated into believing that the mature men and women who upheld the rules were privileged bigots trying to help them back.

Strict sexual mores and saving sex for marriage was reframed from a protection against heartbreak, STDs, unwanted pregnancy, and reputational damage to something that was keeping people from having fun.

Marriage and the family arrangement was reframed from a safe and protective place to raise children into a prison that holds women back from making “GDP go up,” or even worse, it was reframed as the “New Family,” which is anything you can imagine put forth as a family.

Hierarchy was reframed from something that enables cooperation and all members of society to find an honorable place into something that was keeping the small people from reaching their potential.

Healthy shame over overindulging in food was reframed as persecution or “fat phobia.” People were told that they were miserable not because they had no self-control over their diet but because other people didn’t accept their lack of control.

The massive good that our people produced through global colonization—the civilizing of the savages of the world, ending slavery in the west, bringing them plumbing, law, science, literacy, hospitals, and more—was reframed as somehow evil oppression and a cause for complaint.

All kinds of crazy, unhealthy, and evil ideas and lifestyles that we used to rightfully suppress were encouraged, and any attempt to correct such behavior was deemed oppression.

I could go on about how the perpetually unhappy were baited into hazzard with sweet lies and false promises. I’m sure you could supply more examples in the comments below.

And so we rebuilt society around the demands of the unhappy few, attending to their wishes and fantasies. How did that turn out? It only served to make almost everyone miserable. The ranks of the complainers grew. We even began to import them from abroad. We gave a voice to every pathological whining victim and created the weakest, most fragile, most unhappy society in history.

The positive news is that we are going to fix things by going back to traditions that worked. We will stop trying to please everybody and do what is true and right, not what is comfortable or coddling.

And you know what? Some people are going to complain about it.

We are going to save the west even if the whiners don’t like it.