Pascal Bruckner Quotes

Instead Of Admitting That Happiness Is An Art Of The Indirect That Is Achieved Or Not Through Secondary Goals, It Is Presented As If It Were An Immediately Accessible Objective, And Recipes Are Provided. Whatever The Method Chosen, Psychic, Somatic, Chemical, Spiritual, Or Computer-based, The Presupposition Is Everywhere The Same: Contentment Is Within Your Reach, All You Have To Do Is Undergo A "positive Conditioning," An "ethical Discipline" That Will Lead You To It. This Amounts To An Astonishing Inversion Of The Will, Which Seeks To Establish Its Protectorate Over Psychic States And Feelings That Are Traditionally Outside Its Jurisdiction. It Wears Itself Our Trying To Change What Does Not Depend On It (at The Risk Of Not Dealing With What Can Be Changed).

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