Why “Happiness” May be Making Us Unhappy

“Happiness functions as a state of psychological, emotional and social well-being, though when we think of happiness, we picture ourselves at our most optimal experience. We think of the moment we won our basketball game, when we were promoted for our job, when we got that great internship or when we fell in love with our soulmate. Happiness, thus, has generally been understood as an emotion that we can obtain, that we can pursue, that we can experience if we search for it. In this way, happiness is a pursuit and a goal, rather than a state of psychological, emotional and social well-being.”

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Why Twitter Is Gold

“At your fingertips, information can circulate quicker than humanity has ever imagined — and with sites like Twitter, news, research, culture, music, and politics have been able to reach audiences around the world digitally in ways unprecedented in all of human existence.”

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The Illusion of Time

“We live in thinking, we live in futuristic motives, we live in a consistent state of disjointed thoughts coexisting mostly in the future and very rarely in the present moment”.

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Psyche and the Presidency

“Our psyche can be said to comprise of an id, ego, and superego—terms coined by Sigmund Freud in his psychoanalytic personality theory. The ego, one’s rationale, controls the id’s impulsivity and sometimes irrational behavior. It is what keeps one “in tune with reality”; meanwhile, the superego moralizes situations in terms of what one deems as right or wrong. One’s ego is essential in mediating the id and the superego, keeping circumstances on a consistent state of affairs.”

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