It's the paradox of happiness. Pursuing happiness as your goal in life is the one sure-fire way never to achieve it. More than that, the cold, calculating, sta

It's the paradox of happiness. Pursuing happiness as your goal in life is the one sure-fire way never to achieve it. More than that, the cold, calculating, statistical logic of a utilitarian hedonism that you see so much of in a "scientific" approach to happiness, fails to account of the difference between kinds of happiness: Is it better to be a pig satisfied or a Socrates dissatisfied? Scientism is what transforms a beautiful piece of music into lifeless vibration frequencies. There's more to reality than what a mere scientific description can tell you.