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Cmon, Get Happy

Being happy has become commercial, individualized, and barbaric.

By Jeanine Plant

Toward the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Crack-Up,” an essay about his personal decline during the Great Depression, he wrote, “The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.” Glancing at the headlines today, it’s hard not to agree. Within the past six months, a spate of books on happiness has appeared in stores as if to remind… return to article

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