Is Fun Dead? Did Americans Forget How to Have Fun? Do We Need Fun Coaches? Are We Too Busy Acting Our Fun on Social Media? Why Does Fun Feel Like An UnFun Slog When It's Over? Are There Any Solutions?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Sometime in recent history, possibly around 2004, Americans forgot to have fun, true fun, as though they’d misplaced it like a sock. Instead, fun evolved into work, sometimes more than true work, which is where we find ourselves now. Fun is often emphatic, exhausting, scheduled, pigeonholed, hyped, forced and performative. Adults assiduously record themselves appearing to have something masquerading as “fun,” a fusillade of Coachellic micro social aggressions unleashed on multiple social media platforms. Look at me having so much FUN! Which means it is nothing of the sort. This is the drag equivalent of fun and suggests that fun is done. When there are podcasts on happiness (“The Happiness Lab,” “Happier”); a global study on joy (The Big Joy Project); David Byrne offering reasons to be cheerful; workshops on staging a “funtervention”; fun coaches; and various apps to track happiness, two things are abundantly clear: Fun is in serious trouble, and we are desperately in need of joy. This paragraph comes from the Washington Post. The article is titled: "Fun is dead." The author is Karen Heller. You can read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2023/12/23/fun-is-dead/ Zac and Don discuss whether fun is dead. They wonder if maybe people have expectations for fun that are unreal. They wonder if maybe fun is about who you are with and not what you are doing. They also wonder if specific age groups struggle with fun more than others...