7/24/2019 Zizek on Happiness

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Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want.

What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is foropportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle

especially struggle with oneself. We all remember !ordon !ekko the role played by

"ichael #ouglas in Wall Street. What he says breakfast is for wimps or if you need a

friend buy yourself a dog I think we should say something similar about happiness. Ifyou want to remain happy $ust remain stupid. %uthentic masters are never happy&

happiness is a category of slaves.