Doubt happiness.

 Doubt happiness.


Don't we today think that every human being deserves to be happy in the best possible world? Happiness has the power to be omnipresent in our lives, love, work, play, illness, and health. Because we do not know for sure, that more powerful power, the ever-changing power to hold onto our planned desires and realize ourselves.


Philosopher Pascal Bruckner aptly described happiness as 'the only horizon of our democracy', an insight that for most people is the measure of all things. Whereas by the dawn of modern times God was happy for most men and women, happiness has since become our god.


The ultimate subject of grace is God. However, happiness was perceived as something that can be achieved through human effort. This perception was lost in the Enlightenment.


The Enlightenment radically changed this long-standing concept, making happiness something that every human being could aspire to in life on earth. Happiness, which is fundamentally missing from humanity, is not a gift from God, not a trick of fate, nor a reward for exceptional actions, and it is a natural thing given to humans that can be obtained in principle by all men and women. The Enlightenmentists argued that there was indeed something wrong with human misery. In other words, there is something wrong with beliefs, forms of government, conditions of life, customs, or anything else, and changing these things - by changing ourselves - can of course actually bring us happiness as intended. From the Enlightenment perspective, happiness was not a utopia of divine perfection, but rather a self-evident truth that could be pursued and achieved in the here and now.


'We can and will be happy, we must be happy. We have the right to be happy.'


This shift in the Enlightenment's thinking opened the way for happiness to become a secular religion.


But that's not all.


Behind happiness, there is a huge flow that has made almost all modern countries pursue happiness.


Now is the time to question the pursuit of happiness that was taken for granted.

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