facing reality

Socrates said "The unexamined life is not worth living." Happiness that is not accompanied by self-awareness is fragile, empty, and often short-lived. Some people seem to go through life obliviously happy, but when a crisis comes up, if they have all their eggs in the basket of blissful ignorance, they will not know what to do. Or they will be trapped in their happy bubble and totally unavailable to the people around them. But it goes beyond that. People whose pursuits of happiness are based on avoidance of the truth are dangerous. They are some of the biggest supporters of fascism and the like.