The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have....
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.