"Anxiety is a necessary condition of human happiness since happiness is never completely acheived and never permenantly kept."
What he meant was that in order to be truly happy you must not be dependant on the whim of Fortune--the vision that appeared to him.
Its truth can be seen around us. I've had a number of conversations lately about the consumer culture we live in. If you hang around a church long enough you will hear it condemned. But technology has made our lives safer, longer and more comfortable. We actually have free time.
So is our consumerism wrong, or right? Is the evil in technology itself? Or does our unease come from equating happiness to material wealth?
Somewhere in the shift from sustinence to extravagance our definition of the good life changed. What is it now?
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