Keep thinking about what @tylercowen said a couple of months ago --
That people don't want to be happy; they want to be a specific type of person.
(I'm paraphrasing.)
I think it's the most important thing I've heard/read in 2018.
That they also behave consistently w/ feeling this way about their kids is my super depressing addendum
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GREAT point!! Children as the battlefield of adults' self-miming ambitions. (Tbh, when I turned 30 I started wondering - w/o judgement when I could - what kind of a person I am, as opposed to what kind of a person I want to be. Made some decisions accordingly. Changed things.)
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Is this less depressing if the kind of person they want to be is a desirable and obtainable outcome? (desirability being hard to define not withstanding). Happiness isn't above all, right?
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Depends on the definition - do we mean self-fulfillment/actualisation -- or pleasure. I think re: children we're talking about blocking their self-fulfillment (under the guise of pleasure regulation) --- whereas re: adults that's more ambiguous. Adults can deny themselves both.
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