Comment by Dave Fowler (dave-fowler) on Moderately More Than You Wanted To Know: Depressive Realism · 2025-01-14T01:26:29.430Z · LW · GW

great post.  I found Bertrand Russell's "The Conquest of Happiness", especially the 2nd chapter on Byronic Unhappiness to be a well articulated argument against a commonly held belief that to truly be an aware or intelligent person either requires or results in depression.