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POPSThe Hollow Lives of the Happy <<<Who wouldn't question this apparently hollow form of American happiness? Aren't all of us late at night, when we're honest with ourselves, opposed to shallow happiness? Most likely we are, but isn't it possible that many of us fall into superficiality without knowing it? Aren't some of us so smitten with the American dream that we have become brainwashed into believing that our sole purpose on this earth is to be happy? Doesn't this unwitting affection for happiness over sadness lead us to a one-sided life, to bliss without discomfort, bright noon with no night? My sense is that most of us have been duped by the American craze for happiness. We might think that we're leading a truly honest existence, when we're really just behaving as predictably and artificially as robots, falling easily into well-worn "happy" behaviors, into the conventions of contentment.>>>
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POPSReal Health What does the hysteria for pills and potions and technologies and magic herbs and so on tell us about the spiritual health of 'advanced civilisation'?
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POPSAlzheimers in Love Any comfort whilst in the grips of this disease should be forgiven, if at all possible. I work daily with Alzheimer's people and they have lost so much by the time they reach this stage. God bless them if they find a friend who is always near.