Okay, peeps this is startin' to sound wee bit dystopic.

Brave New World and Soma? We know how it worked. Happy isn't all there is. And being happy to be a spending machine? Seriously? Medicating people into being better workers?

I guess I read too many dystopic novels and I grew up on the wrong side of the iron curtain. Yes, we also were shiny happy people over here. No chemistry, fortunatelly, we had to fake it.

And politically active? I think that mild to moderate depression can be much better drving force than happy. I tend to get too optimistic when hypo.... much too for my own liking.


Sorry to rain on everybody's parade.... I personally think that learning to live within wider spectrum of emotions is more beneficial. Yes, including the bad stuff. Because life is not all about happy. I blogge about this some time ago http://venushalley1984.wordpress.com...-of-happiness/