Your Stupid Happiness Makes The Rest Of Us Miserable

“There is plenty of unhappiness to go around. Why dwell on it? There’s no need, I agree. But we shouldn’t refuse to acknowledge it. TV and the internet disseminate a form of propaganda by insisting on and showcasing shiny, creative, fulfilling lives. It makes me feel inadequate because my life, although creative, and fulfilling and quite well paid, does not send me into paroxysms of ecstasy every day. It is just life, sometimes good, sometimes bad, often a confusing mixture of both…. I would not go so far as Slavoj Žižek who, asked what he found most depressing, answered ‘the happiness of stupid people’. But I know what he meant.”