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I remember some years back watching reruns of Eric and Ernie. It was the height of what you might call "mature cynicism" - a very strong dominant idea that maturity breeds cynicism. https://twitter.com/eric_ernie_col/status/1344516996294184960
And I watched this show and I saw Eric and Ernie sing about these "naive" ideas of happiness, making wah-wah faces with grapefruit peel and generally being cheery. But they were *old*: not just compared to me, but genuinely post-war.
And I thought, they must know something about happiness that I don't know - they remember the war.
I don't think I finished the thought, but it was enough to loosen the hold of that "maturity cynicism" idea.
I don't think I finished the thought, but it was enough to loosen the hold of that "maturity cynicism" idea.
And I've now lived through (most of) 2020, & I understand the idea of Radical Happiness in a way I never could have grasped back in the 90s.
But they learned it first, that generation, and so many other generations. Happiness is wonderful and fleeting and only a fool rejects it.
But they learned it first, that generation, and so many other generations. Happiness is wonderful and fleeting and only a fool rejects it.
