The World's Red Zones

Just by looking at it, what would you guess this chart measures?

Answer here. Surprised?

Comments

[Ligia]

@Junger Gott

I´m surprized about Colombia too. Althogh they´re as green as brazilians (what are all those brazilians happy about? maybe my glumness I´ll never let me know), many of then have been found as refugee in Brazil.

[mogenmuffel]

Before I look, I am guessing: wealth / health / literacy. All the same I figure! Genau.

[M. Möhling]

I've been too enigmatic, again, one sentence needs clarification (though certainly this will apply anyway):

Worry about global warming, which might make Greenland, ugh, green, again? Which spelled global doom once, though nobody noticed?

[M. Möhling]

This maps' bleeding heart, thumping in the bossom of all those of us who sup the milk of human kindness daily, pounds forth with a message: feudal, tribal, and patriarchal rule sucks.[1] Therefore: écrasez l'infâme, never mollify; nix négritude, admit its failure--any Black Power is for creeps, too.

Just joking. The idea, delicately evoked,[2] is this, of course: we don't deserve what we've got. Until theodicy is answered, we're not redeemed and must squirm in the many ways whitey's ingenuity devises. Capitalism won't deliver on collectivism's promise of earthly paradise. Collectivism won't either. Which is a good thing, as thus we may squirm till kingdom come--which happens to be the most exalted of the SWPL. Secularism shunned metaphysics, but the dream of reason produced monsters anew. Surprised?

As knew Goethe's Faust: "That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, Earn and become possessor of it!" Alas, compared to African plight even whitey on welfare is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, much more so middle and upper class variants. Bequeathal unearned forfeits redemption, possession becomes plight. As knew R. Dahrendorf,[3] capitalism's birth requires a different set of ethics as the grown beast then breeds--frugality becomes sloth, sturdiness self-pity. Doch wer Sorgen hat, hat auch Likör, there's balm in Gilead: narcissistic rage gilds guilt with a vengeance, no Bruegel tryptichon matches the sublime horrors pale faced contrition exudes when the least of these brothers of ours reap misery for having an even funnier set of ethics. GWW: Sündenstolz.

Once we killed God for good, Nietzsche wondered: "What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?" So, will we dance around diverse multicultured totem poles? Go vegan? Reduce carbon foot prints all the way? Eat humble pie with extra fries vis-à-vis noble savagery? Worry about global warming, which might make Greenland, ugh, green, again? Which spelled global doom, though nobody noticed? GWW, extra helping: Helfersyndrom.

1. Much better to follow the colonialists' wicked ways wisely, as does, without much variance, non-African, non-Muslim third world.
2. GJ doesn't spell out the touchy-feely stuff. Our circle is, um, select--a nod is as good as a wink.
3. With prose less enraged, as became a Lord.

[Imethisguy]

I dunno.

Economic freedom?
Rule of law?
Freedom from arbitrary detainment?

[strcmp]

Deuteranomaly. Red-green color blind (i.e. 7 to 10% of the male population) can only only discriminate the yellow (brighter) countries from the others. Thus the main information is hidden from them. Thus you can find the color blind people by asking them if they like the diagram.

Note: use colors of different brightness to make us happy.

[Norbert]

Not to speak about Germans, what with all the mass unemployment, senescence, declining car sales, lack of solemnity, glumness, boring commencement speeches, unspeakable volksmusik, lack of sense of esthetics, brain drain, angst, reform backlog, bureaucracy, complicated tax system, lack of humour, horrible film dubbing, awful German language, fussgaengerzonen, bratfett, insecurity, Guido Westerwelle?

[Junger Gott]

Colombians seem surprisingly happy, what with all the drugs, crime, abductions.

[Spritkopf]

At the first glance I indeed thought of something GDP related. But then I saw a lot of latin american countries firmly in the green camp while Japan was in yellow. So I came up with Michael Jackson CD's per capita. OK, that was wrong too. ;-)