![]() ![]() Political change, and with it the experience of solidarity and collective joy. ![]() “We need to resist the happiness imperative beamed down at us from every other billboard.” In Segal’s view, “radical happiness” involves us in an enterprise very different in scope and far more meaningful: the seeking of ![]() As for the official emphasis on happiness, it is insultingly limited, dishonest and functional. The world is a place of “unbearable pain and sadness”, the experience of melancholy is an important part of an authentic emotional life. Lynne Segal gives us her take on the matter straight off. ![]() And suppose we can empirically establish contentment over a longish period, how do we unpick the underlying reasons for it? A happy relationship or a triple-lock pension? A course of mindfulness or a handful of supportive friends? How do you define or promote something as elusive as happiness? Most of us might tick the box marked “cheerful” on Wednesday morning but could well consider ourselves crashingly miserable come Sunday afternoon. ![]()
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