Sunday, February 24, 2008

Backlash against happiness: "Grief is good"

Sharon Begley reports in Newsweek: Happiness: Enough Already.

Eric Wilson, author of Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, in the Chronicle: In Praise of Melancholy.

3 comments:

  1. http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/01/department-of-w.html


    Aaah, if only a certain constitution read "...death, bondage and the pursuit of sadness"...

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  2. Hi, Im from Melbourne Australia.
    By contrast please check out these references which assert that the PRIMAL urge of ALL beings is to be in a state of ecstasy or unbounded happiness.

    1. www.dabase.org/happytxt.htm
    2. www.dabase.org/dualsens.htm
    3. www.dabase.org/freedom.htm

    Plus a reference which describes the politics & "culture" created in the image of a culture based on the universal suppression of this Primal urge.

    1. www.ispeace723.org/realityhumanity2.html

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  3. Sharath Rao: ;-) LOL!

    Anon: Thanks for those links!

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