"The things we are trained to think make us happy, like having a new car every couple of years and buying the latest fashions, don't make us happy." These are the words of the filmmaker behind a documentary called "Happy," quoted in a NY Times story that rounds up all sorts of academic input, personal anecdotes, and studies that all point to the fact that the endless act of acquiring cooler, swankier, flashier, and plain more and more stuff does not make you happy.