Comments on: Social Production, the Good Life, and the Ways of Desire http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/03/06/social-production-the-good-life-and-the-ways-of-desire/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nancy Lebovitz http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/03/06/social-production-the-good-life-and-the-ways-of-desire/comment-page-1/#comment-6237 Nancy Lebovitz Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:24:43 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=742#comment-6237 Thank you-- that's a lot of good sense and kindness. Do you have any theories of how we've become such a self-shaming culture? Maybe I've missed it, but I don't think most cultures have a wide streak of despising their own usual ways of doing things. Possibly of interest: Jennifer Michael Hecht's <i>The Happiness Myth</i>-- the title is unfortunate. It's actually an examination of what a number of people and cultures through histories have thought contributed to happiness, and where our culture is typical and where it's probably deluded. Thank you– that’s a lot of good sense and kindness.

Do you have any theories of how we’ve become such a self-shaming culture? Maybe I’ve missed it, but I don’t think most cultures have a wide streak of despising their own usual ways of doing things.

Possibly of interest: Jennifer Michael Hecht’s The Happiness Myth– the title is unfortunate. It’s actually an examination of what a number of people and cultures through histories have thought contributed to happiness, and where our culture is typical and where it’s probably deluded.

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