CBS’s Morley Safer Says We Should Be More Like Socialist Denmark
Okay, Morley…below is an excerpt from an article by Kyle Drennen:
On Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” anchor Morley Safer did a segment on Demark being ranked the happiest country in world consistently for the past three decades and wondered: “What makes a Dane so happy? And why isn’t he wallowing in misery and self doubt like so many of the rest of us?” Later in the segment, Safer discovered that low expectations of the Danish people was the key to their happiness and he concluded that:
Wanting it all is a bacterium that stays with us from youth to old age — wanting a bigger house, fancier car, more stuff. And when we get more, there’s always someone with even more stuff who’s just as unhappy. Some suggest that the unhappiest zip codes in the country are the wealthiest, like the Upper East Side of New York.
It’s interesting that many liberal media figures reside in New York’s Upper East Side.
Safer began the segment by referring to the Declaration of Independence, just prior to touting Denmark’s socialism:
Tonight, we talk about happiness, that quirky, elusive emotion that the Declaration of Independence maintains we have every right to pursue…the main scientific survey of international happiness, carried out by Leicester University in England, ranks the U.S. a distant 23rd, well behind Canada and Costa Rica. But you’ll be pleased to know we beat Iraq and Pakistan. And the winner is? Once again, Denmark.
Later, while talking to Danish professor Kaare Christiansen, Safer wondered if a nation’s power makes it unhappy: “Do you think there’s some kind of inverse relationship between the more powerful you are, the more unhappy you are, and the weaker you are, the happier you are?”
Full Newsbusters article here.
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