We all have different false views of happiness. These illusions are influenced by American commercialism. Ciardi believes media makes us believe we need materialistic things in order to be happy has tricked us. It is rare not to want something due to the fact that throughout all our lives we have been told that we need these items to be happy. Our country 's constitution has inscribed in the document that we have the right to pursue happiness. So as a human we must try to reach happiness. Therefore, the easiest way to achieve happiness is to buy it. Women 's magazines especially, are ads that provide false illusions of happiness. Ciardi describes, “Advertising begins as poetry and ends as pharmacopeia”. However, it seems we cannot get enough. Once we get that one item that made us believe we would be completely happy, we wind up wanting something else. So it seems that we can only get a glimpse of happiness and then it’s gone. Ciardi says “happiness is never more than partial”. There are never pure states of happiness with materialistic
We all have different false views of happiness. These illusions are influenced by American commercialism. Ciardi believes media makes us believe we need materialistic things in order to be happy has tricked us. It is rare not to want something due to the fact that throughout all our lives we have been told that we need these items to be happy. Our country 's constitution has inscribed in the document that we have the right to pursue happiness. So as a human we must try to reach happiness. Therefore, the easiest way to achieve happiness is to buy it. Women 's magazines especially, are ads that provide false illusions of happiness. Ciardi describes, “Advertising begins as poetry and ends as pharmacopeia”. However, it seems we cannot get enough. Once we get that one item that made us believe we would be completely happy, we wind up wanting something else. So it seems that we can only get a glimpse of happiness and then it’s gone. Ciardi says “happiness is never more than partial”. There are never pure states of happiness with materialistic