Turns out difficult to establish clearly what is happiness, since it's a relative and subjective concept. What may make me happy may be just a boring stuff to you or someone else. Also is not untrue to say that some marketing can make people believe something is meant to make them happy and by suggestion power people feel joy with something they under normal circumstances would find it nothing but annoying.
But what makes me say that we're getting filled with fake happiness then?
When on one society psychiatric problems, specially the most childish one on grown ups that is depression due to (incapacity of) material acquisitions (quite normal if you don't buy a candy to your kid on the supermarket, but hey! Normal in a kid, on an adult it describes either: excessive greed/desire, overspending and ultimately irresponsibility.), as that society gets more and more depressed, filling with loans, bad credit and alike, then there's no doubt we're going through the wrong road of happiness.
OTH, to have money uses also to bring a lot of bad (interested) friends and sometimes makes it harder then to distinguish or even know what friends (real) you really have (if any).
Turns out a too complicated system to achieve any durable and solid happiness, wild consumerism. |