16.12.2023 P. B. Preciado on happiness

“[…]happiness is a form of political emancipation: the ability to refuse the conventions of an era along with success, property, beauty, fame, dignity… as principal organizational lines of an existence. Happiness lies in the ability to feel the totality of things as being part of ourselves, the property of each and every person. Happiness resides in the conviction that to be alive is to bear witness to an era, and thus to feel responsible, vitally and passionately responsible, for the collective fate of the planet.”

-An Apartment on Uranus