A Slave to Happiness

thescalpmaster1 · 2016-07-22T15:10:17+00:00

Happiness is just an emotion. The end.

Life is a mix of emotions. I don't know why most people want happiness to last and worry about being sad in general. They're just the part of life.

Movies, ( especially "rom-coms" ) brainwash and ruin people's lives.

I think striving for that 'zen' like peaceful mindset is what a man needs. If you achieve that, you are a legend because no one can hurt/fuck with you. It's the ultimate alpha mindset. I'll be happy if you post articles related to that.

BasementDweller88 · 2016-07-23T01:02:29+00:00

"Happiness is a moment before you need more happiness" - some NYC ad guy in the 60s

look4wolfpack · 2016-07-22T17:11:27+00:00

I agree with this to an extent, but let's not forget the pragmatic realization here that a life spent in painful defiance is still a life of pain. The key to what you're saying seems to be the "amused" part, which is similar to the existentialist philosophy of absurdism and you even used the word absurd in your description.

Essentially, you have to recognize that life is a joke and laugh at it, but if you don't find it funny, sometimes it can be better to distract yourself for a while than to simply dwell on how painful and difficult everything is. I don't advocate drugs, but keeping busy and productive is a good method to get through tough times while investing in yourself. Keep coming back to the question every so often and see if your mind has opened to new ways of viewing the paradoxes of life.

We are here, and yet it does not matter. We desire, and yet we are left unfulfilled. We live, and then we die. It's not all that amusing, but once YOU understand it, you can be amused by the fact that you have ascended to a level most others in the blue pill matrix never will.

WIDE_420lbs · 2016-07-23T00:14:08+00:00

If you look at the tenants of Satanism it's basically that human happiness is the pinnacle of existence. Which is weird because that's basically the tenants of modern culture; Buy this shit so you can be happy. The actual pursuit of happiness has become myth when you can apparently just buy it or give in to every human-animal impulse and ride the cock carasel. Then the end you realize you aren't truly happy. People forget the actual pursuit of something.

cheechawcheechaw · 2016-07-23T08:14:00+00:00

To be fair, behavior also changes feelings and your hormonal balance. It's a chicken-egg kind of relationship. I am a pretty happy person, doesn't mean that I am also a satisfied one that doesn't want more out of his life.

NietzscheExplosion · 2016-07-22T15:30:44+00:00

I gave you an upvote.

Dunno why guys here don't like to hear the truth. Happiness means shit. Achievement, power and results occasionally give to a boost which may be happiness.

I meet fake happy people all the time. On occasion they try to engage me to be happier. I then, tear them apart and leave them in tears.

Conversely and logically, depressed angry people see me as very positive.

UnbelievableTeknique · 2016-07-22T16:02:31+00:00

"Realz before Feelz"

links to fiction

Shit post as usual. There's nothing wrong with being happy or striving for happiness. You can't live in perpetual amusement but you can definitely go online and pretend to.

billhickswasright · 2016-07-23T01:03:09+00:00

Great book, espeically if you like eugenics and Shakespeare!

bowie747 · 2016-07-23T05:40:47+00:00

I love your disseminations of social awareness/mass consciousness. Apt

ShadyAction · 2016-07-22T17:30:17+00:00

What the fuck are you blabbering about SOMA ?

JackGetsIt · 2016-07-22T17:30:41+00:00

We are animals that always want more. Happiness is a temporary feeling we get when a fundamental human need is being met. The problem is that we are living a lot longer and our happiness is more and more contingent on how we script out and plan our futures.

Society is quite harsh on citizens that don't develop skills and contribute a lot back. This long term planning is stressful, un-intuitive, and the rewards are quite far off. Some humans do this long term planning, working towards a goal, and delayed gratification better then others. All of us are discontent after we've experienced the brief happiness that comes from short and long term goals because again we always want more. We are just built to keep traveling towards something. I think the best thing we can do is develop a contentment with the work and the journey itself. That way arrival at a destination is only more happiness and then it's back to the happy journey.

rodger_mexico · 2016-07-22T18:53:51+00:00

Everyone wants to be happy, but happines can take multiple forms. Happines is when you have what you want. Everyone wants something. Even those who want to not want anything.

buckshotdblaught · 2016-07-23T00:48:21+00:00

I have just finished this book and was amazed at the parallels between it and TRP and current society. And this book was written nearly 100 years ago. It only hardened my resolve to live a red pill life and fight against the mediocrity that everyone else seems to be striving towards

Thewelshpill · 2016-07-22T15:30:58+00:00

your drawing some really loose parallels between fiction and reality

Title	A Slave to Happiness
Author	NeoreactionSafe
Upvotes	53
Comments	25
Date	July 22, 2016 2:18 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/TheRedPill
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