You Don't Have To Choose Between Happiness And Being Informed by Caitlin Johnstone published on 2023-05-12T12:17:08Z So of course people who see this express despair. When you first punch through the lies and start to gain an understanding of what's really going on, it can be really unpleasant at first. It feels like what it probably felt like to be a lucid thinker back in much less enlightened times when civilization was dominated by religion and superstition. Lonely. Depressing. As Terence McKenna said, "The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation." But it gets better. Or at least it does if you allow it to. Reading by Tim Foley. Genre News & Politics Comment by Joost Oud This is exactly what I have discovered too. I know who and what I am. My happiness does not depend on what others think of me or what I can buy. Success to me means making a difference for the better in other peoples' lives and thereby my own life. I share my musical gifts for free. And I always get rewarded, though not necessarily with money. I know much of what is going on in this world and I do what I can to make it better. That's all. 2023-06-24T23:53:47Z Comment by Mohan Mohankumar great. well thought out, through and well written..Thank you! 2023-05-12T22:15:26Z