like a button

Just started reading it - a few paragraphs in before being distracted by something shiny or important.

And I get to this line

"The Declaration of Independence affords us the right to "the pursuit of happiness," not pleasure. "

And like a button, switched to contemplative melancholic mode. 

I don't like it.

The article is really good.

Turn off pleasure, and you turn off the will to live.
But long-term stimulation of the pleasure center drives the process of addiction. Rich people are addicted to money, power, gambling; middle-class people are addicted to cocaine, amphetamine, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, heroin. The poor, well, all they've got is sugar.
Pleasure is exciting. Happiness is transcendent. More importantly, pleasure is dopamine. And happiness is serotonin.

But it doesn't make me happy.

It gives me hope, something to think about, but also points out, I haven't been the happiest person around in a while.  I have no reason not to be though. 

Something to think about I guess.

Maybe I'll just watch some more Kung Fu movies on free Hulu tonight instead.