A lot of the social dysfunction of the US can be traced to the uncritical positivity of the culture. It’s practically illegal to be sad. Sadness is a problem to be solved with good ol’ Yankee ingenuity. Eliminated from the collective psyche like a smallpox of the soul.
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The complaint is usually about tone deafness to others’ misery, not happiness per se.
