Excerpt from the book..The Transformational Decade by
Herbert I. London
“In this psychological era personal happiness is the
goal. Happiness has been transmogrified from a wish to a right. At the moment
the entire culture manufactures Happiness industries.
Unhappiness has been medicalized as a form of depression requiring Prozac or its equivalent.
Aging has been addressed by obsession with plastic surgery. Physical beauty is so sought after that cosmetics firms promise it and magazines tell you how to find it. Young people grow up with the illusion, physical beauty can be bought and that happiness supersedes the requirements of civic responsibility.
Unhappiness has been medicalized as a form of depression requiring Prozac or its equivalent.
Aging has been addressed by obsession with plastic surgery. Physical beauty is so sought after that cosmetics firms promise it and magazines tell you how to find it. Young people grow up with the illusion, physical beauty can be bought and that happiness supersedes the requirements of civic responsibility.
Were it not for unhappiness, Napoleon would not have
overcome the chiding of his schoolmates to become Emperor of France. Were it
not for unhappiness Teddy Roosevelt could not have overcome boyhood infirmities
to reach the heights of political success. Unhappiness certainly does not lead
inexorably to greatness, but in many cases it does inspire greatness. Moreover
happiness is neither inevitable nor made to last. These are mood swings in life
that everyone experience; the happiness of today may be the melancholy of
tomorrow. The word Happiness represents a presumptive bliss, an ecstasy that
transcends the limits of biology.In the end things will make you happy.”
“A life time of Happiness!” declared George Bernard Shaw,”
It should be hell on earth.”
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