Slightly Happy, According to Mr. Diener… Tangent Ahead

To begin, I took the happiness quiz, and of course, I ranked slightly happy. Five questions, and I'm told how I feel (with a much less accurate description than what I could say myself). It's very hard for me not to become the class grouch while reading Ehrenreich's book, as Dr. O put it at the beginning of the semester. To preface this, I should say I'm enjoying Ehrenreich's book and agree with many points… On most days, I'm very comfortable with myself, but I can't help but feel emotionally hung over while reading this.

Instead of asking why are or are we not happy, what it is or is thought to be, and where can it be found, I feel like we should be asking how can we reclaim reason? How can anything be fixed? I know that these are questions that have been often asked, and more frequently responded with a cure-all idol (whether God or life-coach), quick-fix drug, or guidelines to restructure one's life, written by some other person who is only capable of living one life.

I don't believe there's one, definite way to fix anything or to generally live by, but I certainly feel like everyone's so muddled in a mess of (un)happiness (and illogic, if you want to use that term), certainly there has to be some reason to fix this and some other people that feel likewise? We're sitting in classroom (or currently, behind our laptops) and discussing with at least somewhat like-minded people instead of engaging in action which would involve more people, allowing for these legitimate concerns for logic to be heard on a larger scale. How much can be done by discussion, and when/if does anyone feel like we should act?