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We are on the verge of destroying our ozone layer. We are close to destroying hundreds of exquisite animal species. Moreover, we
We are on the verge of destroying our ozone layer. We are close to destroying hundreds of exquisite animal species. Moreover, we
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2013-08-15
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We are on the verge of destroying our ozone layer. We are close to destroying hundreds of exquisite animal species. Moreover, we now find ourselves on the verge of a new cold war. But there is another threat, perhaps as dangerous: we are destroying a major cultural force, the muse behind much art and poetry and music. We are getting rid of melancholia(忧郁).
A recent poll shows that almost 85 percent of Americans believe that they are very happy or at least pretty happy.【F1】
The psychological world is now opening up a new field, positive psychology, devoted to finding ways to enhance happiness through pleasure, engagement, and meaning.
Mainstream publishers are printing thousands of books on how to be happy. It seems truly an age of almost perfect contentment, a brave new world of persistent good fortune, joy without trouble.
Why are most Americans so utterly willing to have an essential part of their hearts sliced away and discarded like so much waste?【F2】
What are we to make of this American obsession with happiness, an obsession that could well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse and that could result in a disaster as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation(扩散)?
What drives this rage for this desperate contentment?【F3】
How can so many people be happy in the midst of all the problems that plague our globe -not only the collective ills but also those particular irritations that plague our everyday existences?
Are some people lying, or are they simply afraid to be honest in a culture in which the status is nothing short of manic happiness?
I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a forgetting of an essential part of a full life.【F4】
I further am concerned that to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic, to settle for unrealistic abstractions that ignore concrete situations.
Without the agitations of the soul, would all of our magnificently yearning lowers topple? Our culture seems to treat melancholia as a threat to our pervasive notions of happiness—happiness as immediate gratification, happiness as superficial comfort, happiness as static contentment.【F5】
Doesn’t this unwitting affection for happiness over sadness lead us to a one-sided life, joy without discomfort, bright noon with no night?
【F5】
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我们这种无意识的、对压倒悲伤的快乐的热爱,不就是导致我们过着片面的生活,只乐不忧、有昼无夜的罪魁祸首吗?
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考研英语一
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