dictatorship of hapiness

In the capitalist world we are living today, the search for hapiness is becoming more and more atractive, but when the sorrows and frustrations are being locked on a drugs cage, we have to admit there´s something wrong going on.

When we think about it, taking pills that promises to take your bad feelings away, that seem to be an excellent choice. But is it really necessary to feel so happy all the time? Certainly there seems to be a very simple choice, but when we swallow all the available drug cocktails, we are leaving behind feelings that usually constructs a man.

Thinkin about never being sad seems great, but what´s the price we have to pay for it? We are constantly bombarded by the consumerist media messages, and that´s where we find the problem. People are being taken to think that the financial sucess walks besides hapiness, with that in mind, they are doing everything possible to get rich, as quick as possible.

That´s not happening on individual scale, whole countries explore others to get their wealth. With those minds and actions, the social differences are getting huge.

A world reformation is sadly a utopian solution, but we surely have to think over: what kind of hapiness concept we are being subjected?

Otaviano Fontanini