In his time, when you pursued pleasure, it might mean a very different thing. He didn't have unlimited process food or alcohol available in demand. Now that we're an age of abundance, if we pursue pleasurable things directly for their own sake, we land into a diction which is hard to get out of. The modern struggle not only is trying to stand up to these things that are weaponized, but desensitizing you and exposing you to the misery of their loss and absence....
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