①The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
反快乐艺术的兴起几乎精确地追踪着大众传媒的出现,随之产生的商业文化,其中的幸福不是一种理想而是一种空想。
②And since these messages have an agenda--to lure us to open our wallets-they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.
既然这些信息的中心目的就是引诱我们掏钱,那些幸福的观点看起来就一点也不可靠了。
The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.