10-11-2021, 02:54 PM
"Freer, more swinging times"? Do you mean the 3T?
It could be fun, all right, but the fun was largely in primary colors. It was close to the most intense, but evanescent and costly, delights such as sex, drugs, cheap thrills, mindless culture, and the world of the shopping mall.
The id is easy to please if one does not contemplate the cost in personal health, credibility, material success, social cohesion, and savings. The more sustainable delights take more time, effort, and sophistication to achieve, but they don't leave one with an oversized belly, unwelcome pregnancies, jail terms, cirrhosis, emphysema, wrecked vehicles, and poverty. I know -- I am the sort of person who outgrew the lust for vehicular speed before I was eligible to get a driver's license. I prefer a slow drive on California 1 or Michigan 22 to the thrill of testing my mettle by pushing down the pedal. Depending on where I live, I might have one or the other as a possibility at age 65.
It could be fun, all right, but the fun was largely in primary colors. It was close to the most intense, but evanescent and costly, delights such as sex, drugs, cheap thrills, mindless culture, and the world of the shopping mall.
The id is easy to please if one does not contemplate the cost in personal health, credibility, material success, social cohesion, and savings. The more sustainable delights take more time, effort, and sophistication to achieve, but they don't leave one with an oversized belly, unwelcome pregnancies, jail terms, cirrhosis, emphysema, wrecked vehicles, and poverty. I know -- I am the sort of person who outgrew the lust for vehicular speed before I was eligible to get a driver's license. I prefer a slow drive on California 1 or Michigan 22 to the thrill of testing my mettle by pushing down the pedal. Depending on where I live, I might have one or the other as a possibility at age 65.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.