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i think this ties back to the idea that suffering is noble and enlightening, somehow. the flip side of that is the idea that nothing important or meaningful can be conveyed through happiness. i don’t think that’s true, but i guess a lot of people do.
Christianity has that element (from Greek philosophy) and because of it, much of western culture. I think we'd do well to collectively re-focus on sharing happy things. Would change our societies for the better. We can still be serious when needed; we'd have more energy for it if we stopped wearing ourselves out on stressful "entertainment".
In that vein, here's my current feel better go-to, Paolo Nutini's Pencil Full of Lead :) https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=fR2j2eTfbKo