I'm being silly? Really?
Thing is Evie, after what you did in the other thread, this should be perfectly fine by your standards. Never again can anyone from that debate show a definition of something and say, here, look, this is what it means. Instead, I'm going to be able to say happiness is merely an idea, which it is, it's not a range of emotions except for some silly definition on the internet, and the idea of it isn't real, it's inherently unachievable, it resembles perfection in that way.
It's rather like the free will debate. If you think happiness is real, you probably mean something extremely trivial by it, something people experience every single day of their lives. That is not the sort of happiness that is being idealized though, in art as well as in real life. That kind of happiness doesn't exist, and people forever look for it and never ever say, here, I found it, I'm done looking.
Thing is Evie, after what you did in the other thread, this should be perfectly fine by your standards. Never again can anyone from that debate show a definition of something and say, here, look, this is what it means. Instead, I'm going to be able to say happiness is merely an idea, which it is, it's not a range of emotions except for some silly definition on the internet, and the idea of it isn't real, it's inherently unachievable, it resembles perfection in that way.
It's rather like the free will debate. If you think happiness is real, you probably mean something extremely trivial by it, something people experience every single day of their lives. That is not the sort of happiness that is being idealized though, in art as well as in real life. That kind of happiness doesn't exist, and people forever look for it and never ever say, here, I found it, I'm done looking.
