Emotional contagion

We'd better watch out! Joy is contagious! The issue being that when we would rather be happily eating up what the invaluable growth offers us (who said forces us? Speak out now, you vile measel!), joy prevents us from doing so. He who suffers from joy is, indeed, too busy watching flowers bloom, basking in the eastern sun or listening to children laugh.

Meaningless moments spent discarding the real world and overlooking the need to produce goods and services through worthy perspiration and honest labour.
Let us cease looking up at the stars or worse, sharing (what a horrible word - we shudder at the thought) a moment with the present and instead, align with the pleasure organised by the powerful.
Thanks to Arts Nomades, you will now be able to identify black sheep, ugly ducklings and other farm animals eager for inappropriate freedoms, to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to soberly stay on the straight and narrow path of controlled joy.  Where is Joy?