We're obsessed with finding happiness. At every turn there are self help books, articles and TV shows on finding that elusive feeling, as well as happiness institutes, retreats, courses, and coaching. Yet despite this, the epidemic of depression in Western society is worsening. What is going wrong?

Our age of materialism breeds perpetual discontent. People's lives are dominated by overcomplication, hyper-competition, stress, rage, boredom, loneliness and existential confusion. We're honed to be removed from nature, married to work, adrift from family and friends, spiritually starved, sleep-deprived, physically unfit, dumbed down and enslaved to debt, writes John F. Schumaker

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