RE: Self-Rejection, Self-Sacrifice, Self-Denial VS Egoism, Earthly Pleasures, Hedonism
February 26, 2025 at 10:05 am
(February 26, 2025 at 9:58 am)AB Caro Wrote:(February 26, 2025 at 9:42 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: You can live a "free and hedonistic life” as much as you like so long as it does no harm to anyone else
True, but societal pressures can spoil or even try to take away this lifestyle.
The school aged kids and teens can’t maximize their free hedonism due to academic and family pressures.
In college age, the job pressure also reduces the time that could have been used for free hedonism. And even after graduating from college, job pressure consumes the same amount of time/lost pleasure taking over what used to be the slot occupied by academic pressure. While the ability to detach from family pressure depends on culture.
So no matter what there is no way to increase the quota of a “free and hedonistic life”, and even so, society’s pressures still try to consume non-work hours through guilt, shame, etc, spoiling what could have been pure, unfiltered hedonistic freedom.
I wonder if you live among especially strict people...?
Most people I know would probably say that if you're not a burden to others and you're not hurting anyone (as you say in your signature) there is leeway in one's spare time.
So for example if you work five days a week at honest work, will people really tell you not to spend your weekends painting pictures, or practicing the piano?
