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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
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/ |
Aw, we can daydream, can't we?
I watched a movie last night called Zenith (well, part of it, before we decided it was rubbish and switched to something else). The premise is a world in 2044 where humans have been genetically engineered to be happy all the time, but it backfired and everyone's numb. So they all seek sensation any way they can with pain being the most coveted feeling, and so there's a huge black market for 30-year-old prescription drugs for their miserable side effects! It was a silly movie, but the premise was interesting. Dystopian, for sure!
Philosophically, I like the Buddhist idea of the "middle path" of balance. But I really enjoy a nice hypomanic high once in awhile. I'm sure it would lose its appeal after awhile if that's all there was, but it's not, and never will be.