What if crap makes me happy? What if my entire culture is based on crap?
Then I guess you have a decision to make: do you want to be happy, or do you want all the things you care about to have the best chance possible in working out how you want them to? Personally, having a computer not work, or having intermittent beeping for eight hours, or pointlessly arguing DON'T make me happier, and if I can fix such problems I will. But if you want to stew in the unexamined life, allowing other people or situations to control you because you feel like thinking makes you unhappy, then I can only hope that you make as little of an impact on the world as possible before you go happily into the grave.
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