PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
What is this myth “happiness” that has bamboozled so many of us? And what is this idiotic thing “fun” which so many chase after? Where people once said, “Good-bye”, they now say, “Have fun!” They even talk… of such things as a “fun time,” a “fun thing” and a “fun book.” I know of nothing more demeaning than the frantic pursuit of “fun.” No people are more miserable than those who seek desperate escapes from the self, and none are more impoverished, psychologically, than those who plunge into the strenuous frivolity of night clubs, which I find a form of communal lunacy… Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved “happiness” — who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the dignity of occasional depression — can find bliss easily enough: In tranquilizing…
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