Pleasure Centeredness

Pleasure centeredness is closely allied with possessions. Innocent pleasures, in moderation, can provide relaxation for the body and mind. But pleasure per se offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfilment. Friend centered ness can also focus exclusively on one person. And what about putting an enemy at the center of one's life? Malcolm mugridge writes a twentieth century testimony. What seemed at the time most significant and seductive now most futile and absurd.