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title: "The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy"
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# The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

**Brand:** michael foley
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## Customer Reviews

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    Titilating.
  

*by R***L on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 18 July 2015*

I never read something better than this. This synopsis of psychology and philosophy. I highlighted dozens of lines in this book. And I want to reread this book.

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    incredible
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 8 September 2014*

more thought provoking than Bertrand Russels Age of Reason.

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    Off Our Nuts
  

*by J***8 on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 September 2012*

I initially thought that this would be a simple puss take of the consumer society, but before long I realised this was a much more serious study of why, in this day and age, we are increasingly unsatisfied with our lot. Well, what else is new, the book initially asks? From the Greeks to the Romans, from Buddha to Christ, from Anthony Robbins to Jerry Springer, we are constantly striving to find a new answer as to what might make us happy. It's a big question. The author delves into a variety of sources across the centuries to discover if there are any answers from religion, or Marx, or Freud, or Nietchze, Camus, the Stoics and on and on, the learning being worn lightly as the chapters proceed. This is no academic treatise, however, and to highlight the absurdity of today we are often served up some daft and amusing examples of how shallow, infantile and inane our culture has become. We want it all, we want it now and we want it with no effort. Once we've got it, we no longer want it at all, and we move our fleeting attention to the new new thing, whatever that might be.Foley has an aptitude for pointing out what might be wrong with contemporary society while joyfully admitting that he's as prone to distraction and buying stuff (providing it's stuff HE likes) as the next shallow person. He keeps interest by pulling in some quite arresting and jarring examples to capture flagging attention - sex sells, as no doubt Foley would be first to point out, while going on to demonstrate that kinky sex sells even better. The examples he chooses to highlight how our attention and pleasures can be divided across several areas at once will stay with me for some time. You too might end up wondering where exactly he gets his hair cut as he overhears a hairdresser talking about her suffocating sex life with a squaddie.I finished the book thinking it's one of the few I'd want to refer to again due to the multitude of ideas and opinions expressed about modern life. The author offers a few pointers about what you might do in order to find happiness, but the overall advice is to keep striving to find out what it is - after all, it's better to travel than to arrive.

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