What Happened to the Pursuit of Happiness?

So whatever did happen to the pursuit of happiness, thinking about the question, while restarting our Five Oclock Friday Night Football Indoors after workouts in the gym, except now without the violent tackling which prematurely ended the season last time between December and January of this year, taking out a couple dozen players, instead switching to pathetic touch rules. Like this last sentence above, I think we as a society have gotten off track, perhaps even off the message of what the collective pursuit is as a people and what the individual pursuit for each ourselves. This should not just be a catchphrase, with political idealism of inalienable rights towards eventual independence being its hook, that we declare out any old time, it must be a way of life for those who believe in keeping freedom, building democracy and making the most out of life with the hope, wish and dream of gaining the highest amount of enjoyment derived from it.

Liberty, from Thomas Hobbes into the minds of John Locke, Thomas Jefferson and their contemporaries, basically modernized the Golden Rule, stating that no one ought to harm another in his life, health, and their possessions. Going from just narrow guarantees, that a government must give its people to a wider spectrum of governmental intervention, which directly gave us our rights based society today, now this along with the growth of the government outside of those checks and balances led to a society without a fully recognized list of responsibilities. Without responsibilities added to any bill of rights, liberal ideology changes from being that of a sovereign commonwealth to night watchman to regulatory state to equal opportunity to choice enhancement stages, with individuals giving up more of the former to their government, in exchange for more of the latter for themselves. The strive for absolute individualism miracuously led to inclusive collectivism, the exact opposite of what they wanted, one that actually was less than the originally intended liberalism.

Individuals who look for the security of the person through its state may achieve this, mainly though bureaucratic entitlement legislation, but without a stronger check and balance of their government, the individual, even through its collective, will not be able to reign in the new found power that government now holds, which limits the people rather than its state they created. Equality can not be achieved, without taking away someone else's, so we must understand the concept that our time here just is not fair, work to make others happy in their pursuit, helping one another in anyway possible, even without the chance of reward or choice of deed if positive, then perhaps we can find some happiness in our very own, need to today try making the best of it while here. I think in the end, once we realize and know that in this world injustice will remain the name of the game, then and only then can any of us actually find a small measure of justice in this life.