The happiness fantasy revolves around ideas of self-actualization, authenticity and pleasure-seeking that arose from the work and thought of Wilhelm Reich in the 1920s, were developed by the human potential movement in the 1960s and 1970s and were commercialized by that same movement in the 1980s and 1990s. In becoming popularized and commercialized, their problematic, contradictory nature has become apparent, rendering the happiness fantasy increasingly untenable.
What you can do:
Think about alternatives to the happiness fantasy.
One such alternative was hinted at in this book: the socialist and anarchist vision of society, in which collective happiness is achieved through the practice of communal solidarity, resource-sharing and mutual aid. If that vision appeals to you, can you work out some of the details of how it could be pursued? If it doesn’t appeal to you, can you think of another alternative?