Fluffywolf
Nips away your dignity
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Yes, but does it really matter if what some people experience as "happiness" is really "fake happiness", assuming they don't know the difference?
You raise an interesting thought.
If a lack of knowledge means that a person can be happy with less than the truth as known by others, then the happiness felt by those who know the most truth can also be considered fake happiness. For no one is omniscient. But then, if real happiness is the kind of happiness a person can feel being the most true to what that person is capable of feeling, we can assume two different possibilities.
One is that all happiness felt, regardless of how much truth there is to that happiness from outside perspective, is true happiness.
The other is that all happiness felt is delusional, for there is always more truth to be found beyond the scopes of ones perception.
This also reminds me to a topic I once made in which I made a case for the fact that happiness and contentment in general is a counter-productive feeling that leads to inaction, and arguebly the best course of action to take, could be to deliberatly feel unhappy so that one may continue to grow and expand as a person in their all elusive quest to attain happiness.
After all, there is no drive as strong as unhappiness to propel a person into a bright future.