Mental pleasure
“Mental pleasure is better than bodily pleasure.” This is what Epicurus says, but is it true?
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Cult of the Personality
The current preoccupation with public personalities, mainly singers, actors and actresses ( or wannabies) is a strange phenomenon. Probably it has always been there in the background, anyway since mass communication emerged. But it is weird to go to the gym and see lines of young women, most of whom are well-educated with good jobs, …
Friendship and dinner parties
Reverting to the conversation about friendship, I would like to raise a question. Living on the East Coast, and being used to slightly different social conventions, I find that people here usually want to invite two or even three couples to a dinner party. This can be fun, and if you are lucky, you can …
How can they live with themselves?
“Your noisy sons of liberty are, I find, the quietest in the field.” (Joseph Reed, commenting on the “tavern patriots and windy politicians “ in 1776). Yes, it is usually the comfortable old men, few of whom have ever been near military action, and indeed actively avoided it, who are happiest to send young men …
Quite the opposite of Epicurean
Recently I saw two hugely over-weight parents in a restaurant, almost for shoveling food down the mouth of their obese boy of about ten. Maybe they equate eating with happiness, but why should they inflict their greed upon the kid?