Happiness?

Hindu (ॐ) depiction of
Ganesha (गणेश) on his Vahana Mūṣaka (वाहन)

Happiness?
Wednesday – May 13, 2026

Happiness, is it even important? You see, there has been plenty of talk about happiness or the need to always be happy, as if a person that is not "happy", per se, is somehow defective. But is it really the case that human beings should go on and be happy all the time? What is the point in being continually happy? Of course not, and the whole point of being happy would just become defeated if humans experienced nothing but constant happiness, and indeed many people who are "happy", or perhaps more so seemingly happy, properly belong to that, somewhat problematic category, of the insane, read more about that here. Indeed, a person that is continually happy is usually labeled a "maniac", for maniacs tend to display this kind of overly happy and overly optimistic, and perhaps above all a kind of motivation that is too strong for any kind of good, as these people eventually will crash into depression and despair, and in a very mathematical sense, one could postulate that depression is to be found in that difference between the extremes, and in the case of depression deep within the negative number line, another peculiar extension of the natural numbers. Besides, why should natural numbers be allowed to represent happiness? Usually, the wholeness, something that humans quite like for reasons having to do with their rather strong need for order and hierarchy, of the natural numbers represents that sanguine calm in knowing, for humans know the natural numbers quite well; in contrast it seems that negative numbers, or worse yet that arithmetic monstrosity of so-called imaginary (lateral) numbers, are quite hard for humans to grasp on an intuitive level, which means that natural numbers tend to work well as a kind of reference point from which everything else under the material order proceeds, or rather from which the extension of Euclidean geometry is allowed to extend. So yes, happiness appears to represent some kind of wholeness in the minds of man—particularly in the collective unconscious of man, to borrow from psychoanalysis—and this is why it modern men value so much to intention to move towards the goal of completing the circuit, or rather always closing the system, for modern men seem quite incapable of conceiving of the slightest thing without that thing existing wholly and only within its own domain extending no further than some imaginary limit.

    What all of this means is that modern men are never quite able to find happiness, yet they value happiness, even though happiness appears to be quite virtual and illusive to them; some modern men even go as far as to claim that happiness is a goal that may never be reached as the goal of happiness in and of itself is a place beyond the world, and really that this place, again more references to Euclidean geometry, can only be experienced through an almost metaphysical sensation "along the way". In other words: it seems that happiness is to be found along the way, because happiness is not a goal in and of itself. Of course, some modern men may disagree with this, but this appears to be what most modern subscribe to; I guess another way of conceiving of happiness, from the modern point of view, could be a little bit like when you are trying to apply yourself in the pursuit of some goal, happiness is supposedly going to come along, but never if this goal itself is happiness. It is also often stated that Aristotle himself considered happiness to be a non-state, which would further reinforce this somewhat negative view of happiness, and that indeed happiness is what you make of it through your life; and some moderns would argue still that Aristotle believed that the intention of life was happiness as its highest goal. This modern and somewhat Aristotelian conception of happiness challenges the entire foundation of the material order, namely that everything can be quantified and compartmentalized to whatever degree necessary and that the "key" to life and wisdom, truly knowledge, is within reach of the sensible domain, for this view of happiness carries a certain undertone, if not a prerequisite, of a higher and most definitely metaphysical dimension, read "Qualification", of true quality. Could a life lived without quality be considered a happy life? What would such a life even entail? Indeed, would life without quality not be the antithesis to life, a kind of parasitic existence without its own principles and justifications? This description sounds very familiar... For this is essentially the "quality", or lack thereof, of modern life, read "Mediocracy", an existence at the very bottom of the manifested world, truly in the dirt without even the slightest decency and honor, the anti-hero.

    Essentially: happiness is one of those things that seem impossible in modern life, yet people seem to be more eager to be happy than ever before; this because most modern people are, quite frankly, misplaced because a man that lacks proper standing in the world is not a man at all, he is merely a shell of a man without the slightest essence, and to some degree even most moderns can understand this, read "What is Divine Inspiration", because they sense the hollowness of the modern world, read "Addiction" as well. Indeed, addiction becomes more and more common in a population that lacks essence and true purpose, in this case metaphysical essence, and this is why the Western world in particular, read "Western Fragility", is in a kind of "existential crisis" at the moment. Where are men supposed to turn when they have no true authority in their life, when authority has been reduced to blunt force, coercion, and violence, read "Temporal Power" and "My Views on 'Neighbors'"? After all, God is dead and now you have to find your own way, care out your own path, but never forget that you are still subject to naturalism, read "Eugenics", and that you may never hold true dominion over your own domain, because individualism has reduced your domain only to yourself, true isolation. Indeed, it is perhaps not so strange that modern men have such a hard time finding happiness in a world restrained so much, curtailed to live like a dreamer, but never destined to live the dream... Indeed, any man would be happier in times gone by, and for those men happiness was indeed no goal in and of itself, for they had a conception of life that rendered them true to the act – the act of life. Today everything seems to be about "the act", yet the act itself never seems to actually exist beyond contemplation – truly an inversion of the metaphysical order of things, read "What are Demons?".

Reginald Drax – May 13, 2026.