Happy ever after?

Abstract

As perhaps with any prolonged contemplation of the present, a slight expectancy befalls the final comments to speculate upon how developments currently in fruition might ultimately play out. There are then two principal avenues of potential progress resulting from this book which should be, at least briefly, deliberated upon, the first of which pertains to proactive and actionable advisements for future study. This overall account is, admittedly and even necessarily, unconventional in terms of its structure and approach to research. The primary intention here has been to identify and expose the Happiness Agenda, and to show how it can be understood and analyzed. Having addressed such a task, subsequent efforts could focus on specific occurrences in greater depth, in contrast to the attempts here to demonstrate the breadth, variance and multi-dimensionality of the processes under investigation.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

(Shaw, 2008: 20)