Learn more about in-person and virtual registration here. Brooks and other experts May 1–3 at The Atlantic’ s In Pursuit of Happiness event. Want to explore more about the science of happiness? Join Arthur C. “But we’re not doomed.” I told her we can beat this affliction if we work to truly understand it-and if we’re willing to make some difficult changes to the way we live. “So life is just a rat race, and we’re doomed to an existence of dissatisfaction?” she asked. My daughter’s mirth now utterly extinguished, she had the expression I imagine Jean-Paul Sartre’s daughter must have had every day. By building a life that is ever more baroque, expensive, and laden with crap. How? Through sex and consumerism, according to the song. “I try, and I try, and I try, and I try,” Jagger sings. But we never give up on our quest to get and hold on to it. We crave it, we believe we can get it, we glimpse it and maybe even experience it for a brief moment, and then it vanishes. Satisfaction, I told my daughter, is the greatest paradox of human life. No matter what we achieve, see, acquire, or do, it seems to slip from our grasp. 2 on Rolling Stone magazine’s original list of the “ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”-has a lot to do with a deep truth it speaks.Īs we wind our way through life, I explained, satisfaction-the joy from fulfillment of our wishes or expectations-is evanescent. ![]() To my mind, the longevity of that particular song-No. It wasn’t just the music, or even the performance, I assured her. “Do people your age actually like this?” I took umbrage, but had to admit it was a legitimate question. An audience of tens of thousands of what looked to be mostly Baby Boomers and Gen Xers sang along rapturously. What I found instead was the septuagenarian rock star Mick Jagger, in a fairly recent concert, croaking out the Rolling Stones’ megahit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”-a song that debuted on the charts when I was a year old-for probably the millionth time. ![]() I came over to her laptop, not being above watching someone making an idiot of himself for 15 seconds of social-media fame. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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