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![]() On the contrary, she believes that joy is communal by nature, and that happiness in life can only come from recognition of our dependency on one another and on Nature. For Segal, the idea that happiness can be individuated is a particularly pernicious aspect of neoliberalism. This insight is central to the book’s subtitle, Moments of Collective Joy. And what’s more, they have a public dynamic as well as a personal dynamic.” All emotions are far more complex and mixed, far more contradictory. “I say, actually, no emotions are like that. ![]() “I began by looking into the promotion and measuring of happiness with the idea that it’s some quantifiable inner event,” Segal tells me. ![]() The latest edition of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine is out now! ![]() This attempt to quantify the experience of happiness in the individual was the impetus of Lynne Segal’s wonderfully affirming book Radical Happiness. Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday? This question has been posed to the British public each year since 2011, after David Cameron decided to construct a National Happiness Index, mooted to replace GDP as a measure of the nation’s wellbeing. ![]()
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