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Aquí también esa desconocida Y ansiosa y breve cosa que es la vida. (Here too the never understood, Anxious, and brief affair that is life.)

My refusal to subscribe to the order of power implicates and is constituted by its implicit address to others: “I need undeserved happiness” is a demand open to all, realizable by all. To paraphrase Lacan, we may reread the call for undeserved happiness as a collective injunction: “Do not compromise on your desire for happiness.” This personal and collective desire declines the demands of the liberal superego-agency and refuses to repeat privilege theory’s surveillance of happiness that leaves intact the socioeconomic situation, that is, the symbolic structure of global capitalism. Demanding undeserved happiness is a traumatic shock to the social order, throwing everything out of balance, “ruin[ing] the smooth flow of our daily lives.” It addresses rather than covers over the antagonism between the included and the excluded, and calls for a different arrangement of the Symbolic: its eventalization “introduc[es] a totally different Universal, that of an antagonistic struggle which, rather than taking place between particular communities, splits each community from within, so that the ‘trans-cultural’ link between communities is one of a shared struggle.” It de-commodifies happiness as a personal good, de-individuates or universalizes desire (and thus restructures and repoliticizes the question of happiness), making the desire for happiness (and enjoyment) both a personal and collective commitment, an attachment to a universalist project, effectively shortcircuiting the privatized rewards of privilege—unearned or otherwise.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ... [Und ich möchte dich, so gut ich kann bitten, Geduld zu haben gegen alles Ungelöste in deinem Herzen, und zu verstehen. Die Fragen selbst liebzuhaben wie verschlossene Stuben und wie Bücher, die in einer fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forsche jetzt nicht nach Antworten, die dir nicht gegeben werden können, weil du sie nicht leben könntest. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Vielleicht lebst du dann allmählich – ohne es zu merken – eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.]

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer [Und ich möchte dich, so gut ich kann bitten, Geduld zu haben gegen alles Ungelöste in deinem Herzen, und zu verstehen. Die Fragen selbst liebzuhaben wie verschlossene Stuben und wie Bücher, die in einer fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forsche jetzt nicht nach Antworten, die dir nicht gegeben werden können, weil du sie nicht leben könntest. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Vielleicht lebst du dann allmählich – ohne es zu merken – eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.]