John McMahon
1 min readApr 30, 2020

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Maybe you should start planning Happiness Parties with your like minded Zoom friends. Once the social distancing is past, you could get both sides together by throwing actual parties and giving away free food and gifts, because those things make people happy. How about some music and dancing and games too, and maybe a magician? That will get both the red and the blue folks smiling! Hell, throw in fifty-fifty raffles to help fund the thing, because a lot of people love to gamble. I’m thinking a ball pit and carnival rides for the kids if they’re still allowed after the virus. But no politics, no organizing, no data collection, no soliciting donations, no canvassing, no meetings, and no marketing of any kind, because those things are all detrimental to happiness. By their very nature they divide people and piss them off. If people who meet at the party want to get together later to help each other or citizens in the community and organize whatever, swell. Mission accomplished. But if you are truly devoted to having everyone be happy at this event, you can’t inconvenience them in any way by putting demands on them. You certainly can’t present any situation where they might have a difference of opinion like over the noise level of the band, or the availibility of gluten free options. That’s when the Happiness Party might turn into a bummer, and that’s what I think you’re trying to get away from.

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