Happiness and Misery in America: Live Event in DC!
Happiness and Misery in America: Live Event in DC!
Join us at 6:15 pm on October 28 at Barcelona Wine Bar before the election to discuss Happiness and Misery in America
In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men placed in the happiest condition that exists in the world; it seemed to me that a sort of cloud habitually covered their features; they appeared to me grave and almost sad even in their pleasures.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Happiness has been central to America’s self-conception since the Declaration of Independence — but we’re miserable. Nearly 250 years on, the promise of American happiness feels vague and distant.
One week before the election, join Aspen Philosophy & Society and Wisdom of Crowds to talk about the existential questions beneath the news cycle: Are we happy? If not, why not? How do we make sense of our national preoccupation with happiness?
(Director, Aspen Philosophy & Society) will host a live taping of Wisdom of Crowds with Joshua Mitchell (Georgetown University Professor of Political Theory) and Osita Nwanevu (Contributing Editor at The New Republic) to think about the promise of American happiness and its future.Come enjoy complementary drinks and food on Monday, October 28 at Barcelona Wine Bar (1622 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009) at 6:15pm — discussion to begin at 7pm.
Tickets are available at this link.
I wish I lived in America so I could come to events like these!
I wish I could come to this - very interested!