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Jarvis Cocker

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stoppe

Jarvis Cocker

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Jarvis Cocker is saying that feeling sad is unnecessary unless you are in a truly desperate situation, like being homeless and relying on scraps for food. He criticizes the habit of trying to improve our mood by buying unnecessary, flashy items instead of addressing the real causes of unhappiness.

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