Happycracia : Cómo la ciencia y la industria de la felicidad controlan nuestras vidas

Happiness is practiced, taught, and learned: this is the message promoted by the so-called science of happiness. According to this science, simply applying its techniques is enough to be more productive, healthier, and grow as individuals. In fact, its proponents also claim that the good life is within everyone's reach. The multi-billion-dollar happiness industry offers something similar, claiming to hold the keys for individuals to shape their lives at will, transform their negative feelings, and get the most out of themselves. But aren't we perhaps witnessing another way of convincing ourselves that success and failure, health and illness, joy and suffering are personal choices? What if happiness were nothing more than a commodity, and its pursuit had become an obsessive and consumerist lifestyle? Furthermore, is it possible that happiness, in its most tyrannical and dictatorial form, acts today as a powerful tool to control how citizens think, feel, and act in the name of their own well-being?