Today! "On Restlessness"
Benjamin Storey on happiness, choice, and transcendence
Monday Event: 12pm PT/3pm ET/7pm GMT/8pm CET
“On Restlessness”
Benjamin Storey in conversation with with Anthony Morgan
N.B. Due to daylight savings, this event will start one hour later than normal in many countries. To ensure you are tuning in at the correct time, use this app and check your local time against 7pm GMT time when the event will be starting.
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. Looking to politics, philosophy, and religion, Benjamin Storey will argue that the philosophy we have inherited, despite pretending to let us live as we please, produces remarkably homogenous and unhappy lives, and that finding true contentment will require rethinking our most basic assumptions about happiness. You can find out more and register here.
