The modern struggle Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists & statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, & medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games & addictive drugs.
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I think the struggle with pleasure and desire has always been there. Desire leads to attachment which in turn leads suffering. The first noble truth in Buddhism.
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Well said, I find myself struggling with this, I have good job, nice house and cars, alcohol and drugs at the ready, plenty of money. Yet I’m not satisfied at all, and I feel as though I yearn for some type of struggle, something to have to actually fight for
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Yeah.If you are well fed, it is very difficult to imagine being hungry and feel that way. That's why even if you have everything,it is a good practice to "put things down" ,"strip yourself of " all material things for awhile ,so you can feel "hungry" again.
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It is a peculiarity of human nature to struggle with whatever is abundant at a given time.
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I believe alan watts said in hinduism you get to the naraka world (hell) not by just being a bad person like in western religion but by pursuing pleasure past a certain point. To the point where please is so boring because of its abundance that pain is the only thing stimulating.
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He used the example of the Romans back in the day where sex, alcohol and every pleasure back then was so abundant that they would release slave girls into and arena to dance and entertain for them but the real show started after when they would release the lions to eat the girls
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For many. Know many who are still struggling for the basics. Working hard, doing right-still can’t get by.
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I think these two things are not mutually exclusive (not all pleasures cost money).
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The age of Kierkegaard.
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