II: Let me clarify: Blissful doesn't mean being spaced out or not taking any action.
wbmw: I think what you mean to say is: there's a such thing as "blissfully ignorant", but blissfulness does not necessarily imply ignorance.
wbmw: I agree with your comment, but I was clarifying that action can be taken even if one is blissful. I was addressing the "bliss ninny" - definition 1 below which states not engaging with the difficulty at hand.
In fact, only those actions that are taken when one is well-grounded and blissful has a chance of being successful. In a well-grounded/blissful/balanced state, one is able to consider everyone's point-of-view to arrive at a mutually beneficial outcome.
1. (slang, pejorative) A person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than to directly engage with the difficulty at hand in a meaningful way.
2. (slang, spirituality) A student who may seem to be intoxicated with spiritual teachings, but is ungrounded or untrained. =================================
wbmw: But you won't have much success arguing that point. "Bliss" and "compassion" are interpreted as signs of weakness to the conservative mindset - and I'll also point out that there's a fine line between stating the obvious, and tweaking the wrong person into raising a fuss over it. It's not worth pursuing the matter, as you will get no gratification from sharing your point of view, if the other person can't relate.
That is why I argue the point of "self-interest" in trying to be blissful and balanced. No one can deny that anger and fear puts them in a negative state, they can feel that impact directly both in terms of emotional agitation as well as their health.
As I mentioned couple of times, this is not about others, it is about us. This is the "man in the mirror" principle advocated by many remarkable people.
I sincerely hope that one gets tweaked or angered by this. Because that is not the intention of my posts.
"Bliss" and "compassion" are interpreted as signs of weakness to the conservative mindset
A common misconception by liberals is that conservatives lack compassion when the truth is that we disagree on what a compassionate response should be. For example I have compassion for my adult daughter when she doesn't manage her monthly finances well and ends up short at the end of the month. But I don't think the compassionate response is to bail her out (even though I can and even though it hurts me not to). Without getting into all the intricacies of our governments entitlement programs, conservatives in general believe that a lot of these programs don't represent the correct compassionate response.
As for 'bliss' I have no comment on that since I don't really know how it relates to the conservative mindset.
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