Sunday, December 5, 2021

Christmas Date

 



Christmas Date

Resisting the "Happycracy": let me have a bad day thanks to Godfrey Muth Sextette (and above all to Doug Trotter, the uninspired vocalist) on Leo Records out of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

As Christmas descends soon on us with its annual obligation to be merry and supportive of consumerist nonsense, it's time to resisting the happycracy.  I believe there is some help online : be married, read the news or watch TV everyday, etc.. But all these tips will only provide a temporary or uncertain unhappiness.






For those who are seeking a permanent state of unhappiness, goodreads has a list of suggested readings.

Surely enough some of these books will depress you, but no other than E.M. Cioran (1911-1995) can do the job.  His "Short History Of Decay" is to the happiness what Roundup™ is for weed and grass.  The book, first published in France in 1949 as "Précis de décomposition", is THE definitive killjoy.  Strongly recommended.

 


 

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