What Is Happiness?
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The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth cetificates, but no one
seems quite which way it ran. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game. Jonathan
Swift seemed to being welldeceived.鈥?nbsp;The felicty of being 鈥渁 fool among knaves.鈥?nbsp;For Swift say
society as Vanity Fair, the land of false goals.
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It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of fools and knaves. We do, however, seem to be
dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have made it to heaven when we
possess enough.
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And at the same time the forces of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us
deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising is one of our major
industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them-and to create them faster
than
any
man鈥檚
budget
can
satisfy
them.
For
that
matter,
our
whole
economy
is
based
on
a
dedicated insatiability. We are taught that to possess is to be happy, and then we are made to want.
We are even told it is our duty to want. It was only a few years ago, to cite a single example, that car
dealers across the country were flying banners that read 鈥淵ou Auto Buy Now.鈥?nbsp;There were calling
upon Americans, as an act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, with money they did not have.
Automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time
the next year鈥檚 models were released.