Happiness?

"We live in a world where the basic building blocks of happiness no longer make us happy. We have everything and nothing. We create teeming metropolises and homes full of mod cons, then sit glued to Tales from River Cottage as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal tries to recreate the lifestyle of a medival peasant. We plunder the oceans by reckless over-fishing, then make recordings of fast-dissappearing whales and dolphins to enhance a calming massage. The other day I read about a stress reducing phone line for business exectutives where they can listen to the 'genuine woodland sounds of silence'."
Mariella Frostrup, The Observer