The Pursuit of Happiness & Its Obstacles – Part 6
Where Happiness Lives & Dies Once I happened upon the World Happiness Report my interest was sparked to learn what I could about the place of happiness in the 21st century human endeavor. My receptivity to this study probably arose from often having my mind in two...
The Pursuit of Happiness & Its Obstacles – Part 5
Other Sources of Lost Happiness I began by wondering if the West, and especially the U.S. (bigger and better at everything), had managed to develop social and cultural systems not well fitted to the life satisfaction and happiness that arise from well-founded life...
The Pursuit of Happiness & Its Obstacles – Part 4
Signs of Failure Two phenomena of this 21st century American moment stand out as exemplary of what our valueless values have wrought. I consider them the natural effusion of materialistically centered culture aided by the expediency and opportunism that reside so...
The Pursuit of Happiness & Its Obstacles – Part 3
Happiness and Economism Let’s be more specific about the sources of our unhappiness. Since I identify the American economic obsession as the central (but not sole) factor leading to societal unhappiness and pathology, I begin with it. I will make it clear that I...
