This article provides some beneficial insight in that not everything in the world is all happy and gleaming with joy as children still suffer from hunger at the same time many families struggle to survive the crossfires of war. One thing the author point out is that "the rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media" which makes sense because everything we see on the TV, Internet, and social media depicts an aspect of happiness constantly. Every advertisement we see shows happy families with excellent cell phone plans and happy people eating food at a family restaurant all carefree and satisfied with their lives. For Americans, it seems that material possessions drives our happiness and we sometimes we forget that
