The Enterprise Blog at the American Enterprise Institute<\/a>, illustrates what has really been going on in your life, while you have been so busy complaining about how horrible everything is.<\/p>\nWe are puerile as a race, about which I will have much more to say later. But even if you are thoroughly grown up in your own thinking, it’s good odds that you have spent your entire life looking at the world upside down, concentrating with a dour dread on everything that does not matter while blithely ignoring everything that does.<\/p>\n
Do you want a very good reason to be cheerful? The world outside<\/em> your mind is all but entirely wonderful, a thing of beauty and infinite splendor. It’s only that world inside<\/em> your mind that is a mess. I’m thinking it’s time you cleaned house. How about you?<\/p>\n< ?php include \"cheerful.php\"; ?><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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