4 July

I get lots of these from a ‘positivity’ account. I look at a meme like that and I see a genuine mental health problem, the need to be happy. The thing about feelings is, a perfectly healthy person living a rich life has all of them. Feelings are a contrast mechanism, they’re not things in themselves. They don’t exist as separate things, like ‘happiness’. Putin is happy to try to crush Ukraine, cyber criminals are happiest emptying your bank account. Is that ‘spreading happiness’? You can see what an idiot agenda it is, to make feelings independent things to try to have. It’s this sort of drivel that makes people run away from the basic realities of life, out of fear of being anything except happy.