Explosive Emotions: How Modern Society Shapes What We FeelEva Illouz, Princeton University Press, £25IT would be difficult to find someone not in the billionaire class who thinks that everything is just fine and dandy. Economic and political problems are legion and crushing.The livestreamed genocide has been soul destroying to witness, and yet opposition to it is increasingly brutally repressed by governments in the West. Yet choosing to simply get on with a quiet life seems to come with a nagging sense of failure and despair.