Meanwhile: Looking for happiness in all the wrong places

Meanwhile: Looking for happiness in all the wrong places
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. . . This musician's success was the latest in a series of indications that people seem more and more intent on finding happiness, however briefly and however they may define it. Apparently they are willing to pay street performers for a sample.
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I asked the musician, Harvey Mooney, why he thought he was getting such a generous response. "Happiness is not normally part of their lives," he said. "The Undergound is where they suffer most. I make a good living doing this."
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It is only a coincidence that I witnessed a happy London musician just as Prime Minister Tony Blair's people announced plans to establish a "wellbeing index" for Britain. It goes into effect around the end of next year and it will try to quantify and index the degree of happiness New Labour has been able to bring to the citizenry.
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Not surprisingly, much mockery has ensued. The Daily Telegraph editorialized that the plan will "take some . . .