Koen
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07:19:00 am on January 29, 2010 | # |
In a country or an earth like this, sometimes we can still feel happy. I think even with more oppressions and depressions, we can somehow still find happiness. There must be happiness in societies under Stalin’s rule, Israel’s oppression, the German concentration camps, etc. As in the myth of Sisyphus. Even after we die, and being thrown into hell, we could somehow maintain happiness. Why not?
What really set the sadness and joy, and happiness? Chemistry (about hormones, etc.), or at a higher layer: symbols manipulated in the brain? Both could be regulated by one or other ways. Heidegger was right when he implied that those who seek their own happiness have shallow minds.
