The way to anarchy is happiness

I am reading Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman as recommended by The Good Doctor. Fascinating and can't put it down. Actually read it while waiting at red lights in the car yesterday, trés unsafe I know, so save your lectures.
Excellent read for the start of 2008. Choosing happiness over the fear based, bad news indoctrination that we have received for eons from secular, religious dogma.
Lovely writing and easy to read without overuse of psychological jargon.
It makes me think about all those who choose to be pessimistic or as Freud said, 'unduly embittered about their past and unduly passive about their future.'
I have met those who think this is the way to show their protest about life, that we are doomed and therefore should behave as such. They are though, merely falling into the trap of the masses.
The anarchists are the happy ones. By choosing not to be a victim, to play to personal strengths and ignoring the idea that we are living in a negative society (which only exists to stop people from doing want they want, scare them and they'll do nothing type of idea) then we are being truly outrageous.


Happiness is the best type of protest.