
Question: Is It foolish to believe that happiness should be the primary goal for humanity on an individual basis?
Answer: It is not foolish at all. It is our purpose in life to become “infinitely happy”. But despite this aim being imprinted into our DNA, despite constantly trying to achieve this infinite happiness we keep failing. Something is wrong with our execution.
The trick is that while we are entitled to aim and work for “infinite, individual happiness” we can’t ever reaching it by aiming for it directly in an individual way. Such “direct individual happiness” is impossible in a globally integrated and fully interdependent system.
In this world aiming directly at individual happiness we make us like cancer cell, where we can get happy only at the expense of others, ruining happiness for everybody including ourselves.
Thus in order to reach infinite, individual happiness “paradoxically” first we have to aim at the happiness of others. Only in a unique, mutually, reciprocal way, building a special “happiness network” – each aiming at the happiness of others in a mutually committed way – can we reach perfect, infinite, individual happiness, by each receiving happiness from others.