Ingrid Fetell Lee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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If you believe that it's wrong to feel joy when someone somewhere anywhere is suffering, then it would never be appropriate to feel joy.
The thing that I've come to is that suppressing your own joy doesn't give it to anyone else.
Like taking joy from yourself doesn't suddenly magically give joy to someone else.
And so I think we can be mindful of our impact on others.
We can be mindful of the way our consumption affects others and certainly work to not increase consumption.
suffering in the world.
But the idea that we should dampen our joy so that we feel less guilty about it, I think that guilt is misplaced in a lot of situations.
And what we should be doing is both dialing up our joy and dialing up our engagement or action in
trying to mitigate some of those situations, instead of just feeling paralyzed and doom-scrolling and saying, I'm just going to not feel joy, but I'm also just going to vicariously consume suffering.
I think that doesn't necessarily help anyone.
Interesting.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And maybe what we're really feeling when we feel guilty about joy is actually it's guilt about our inaction or our sense of detachment.
from the problem and not necessarily actually the joy.
I love that example.
And again, nothing against corporate accountants.
I know joyful accountants.
But I think the point stands that really this idea that joy can thrive even in the most unexpected places because these are places that experience extreme hardship.
And yet joy can be alive and well in those places.
That's a big question.
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