If a person was never happy then his/her life was a complete failure morally?
It seems like people narcissistically use their own happiness to rationalize/justify their own choices. This is evidenced by their condescending, judgemental treatment of those who struggle, suffer, etc., not to mention their complete lack of empathy and compassion.
Maybe reality is too complicated for people and it is easier to see everything in black and white. If you are happy, then you are a good person and you are doing everything right. If you are not happy then you are a bad person, you are doing something wrong, there is something wrong with you, etc. What a simple world we live in!
I see plenty of people who are happy, but I would not want to live like they do. Happiness is deceiving one's self or being deceived by others, maybe? Ignorance is bliss? It is better to be a happy pig than to be an unhappy human, maybe?
"What good does it do to adjust and integrate the self in a culture that is itself sick?" -- Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything.
It seems like people narcissistically use their own happiness to rationalize/justify their own choices. This is evidenced by their condescending, judgemental treatment of those who struggle, suffer, etc., not to mention their complete lack of empathy and compassion.
Maybe reality is too complicated for people and it is easier to see everything in black and white. If you are happy, then you are a good person and you are doing everything right. If you are not happy then you are a bad person, you are doing something wrong, there is something wrong with you, etc. What a simple world we live in!
I see plenty of people who are happy, but I would not want to live like they do. Happiness is deceiving one's self or being deceived by others, maybe? Ignorance is bliss? It is better to be a happy pig than to be an unhappy human, maybe?
"What good does it do to adjust and integrate the self in a culture that is itself sick?" -- Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything.
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