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Happiness as we speak isn't just a risk or an possibility however a requirement and an obligation. To fail to be completely satisfied is to fail completely. Happiness has change into a faith--one whose smiley-confronted god appears down in rebuke upon everybody who hasn't but attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating precept of the Enlightenment--the suitable to pursue happiness--change into the unavoidable and burdensome accountability to be glad? How did we turn out to be sad about not being blissful--and what may we do to flee this predicament? In Perpetual Euphoria, Pascal Bruckner takes up these questions with all his unconventional wit, drive, and brilliance, arguing that we is likely to be happier if we merely deserted our mad pursuit of happiness.
Gripped by the dual illusions that we're answerable for being blissful or sad and that happiness will be produced by effort, many people are actually martyring ourselves--sacrificing our time, fortunes, well being, and peace of thoughts--within the hope of coming into an earthly paradise. Much higher, Bruckner argues, could be to just accept that happiness is an unbidden and fragile present that arrives solely by grace and luck.
A stimulating and entertaining meditation on the unhappiness on the coronary heart of the trendy cult of happiness, Perpetual Euphoria is a guide for everybody who has ever bristled on the command to "be joyful."
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