Den franske filosofen og forfatteren Pascal Bruckner skriver om lykke i
City Journal: "Now that it has become the horizon of our democracies, a
matter of ceaseless work and effort, happiness is surrounded by anxiety.
We feel compelled to be saved constantly from what we are, poisoning
our own existence with all kinds of impossible commandments. Our
hedonism is not wholesome but haunted by failure. However well behaved
we are, our bodies continue to betray us."