In the contemporary ideological climate it has become imperative that we perceive all the terrible things that happen to us as something positive – say as a precious experience that will bear fruit in our future life. Negativity, lack, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, are perceived more and more as moral faults – worse, as a corruption at the level of our very being or bare life. There is a spectacular rise of what we might call a bio-morality (as well as morality of feelings and emotions), which promotes the following fundamental axiom: a person who feels good (and is happy) is a good person; a person who feels bad is a bad person.

[…] [B]io-morality […] is replacing the classical notion of responsibility with the notion of a damaged, corrupt being: the unhappy and the unsuccessful are somehow corrupt at the level of their bare life, and all their erroneous actions or nonactions follow from there with an inexorable necessity.

[…] success is becoming almost a biological notion, and thus the foundation of a genuine racism of succesfulness.

Alenka Zupancic, The Odd One In: On Comedy