NY Mag: Positive Pyschology Has Some Bad Ideas About How to Be Happy.
With its almost belligerent denial that structural obstacles to happiness exist, it seems to promote a dangerous level of social and political disengagement about tackling the injustices of the wider world. On a more personal level, I find it unforgiving and dismissive of others’ often very real problems and all too liable to veer into victim blaming.
I suppose dung beetles are happy, until they realize it's dung. Then what do you do?