We have bred our new elite. Happy people. As our culture has embraced happiness as its highest ideal, our new elite are those who have become superlatively happy. They can maintain months, if not years of uninterrupted happiness. The rest of us look up to them as perfect examples of humanity. They appear on Oprah and have ministries passing out advice on how to get God to make you happy. They tell stories about how, once upon a time, they were unhappy, downtrodden and miserable, but that they worked out how to get happy. Some will sell you their secret at a substantial sum. Just listen to the tape, find…