Our birth rates are down and costs of living are high, so traditional families are in decline. Today’s young man between 20-30 is drowning in pleasure through video games and pornography, he will not have a serious or real relationship with a woman to make a family or bear children until late in life or perhaps ever.
We are indeed living in a time of weak men who create hard times. Where pleasure, personal happiness, limited desire, modest living, knowledge without action, tranquility, absense of bodily pain and hedonism take over, a weak man is born.Īs a millenial, I can say that my generation is certainly Epicurean in nature. The combination of these two states constitutes happiness in its highest form… Epicureanism is a form of hedonism – Source Wikipedia This would lead one to attain a state of tranquility (ataraxia) and freedom from fear as well as an absence of bodily pain (aponia). That what he called “pleasure” was the greatest good, but that the way to attain such pleasure was to live modestly, to gain knowledge of the workings of the world, and to limit one’s desires. In contrast Epicurean values stem from Epicurus and he believed: To the stoics, virtue was more important than happiness in life.
To have wisdom, justice, courage and moderation is to be strong where one will defer his or her own happiness and pleasure for virtue. The Stoics elaborated a detailed taxonomy of virtue, dividing virtue into four main types: wisdom, justice, courage, and moderation. Strength and success are born out of stoic values. “A nation is born a stoic and dies an epicurean” Will Durant Unfortunately, in November 2016, I believe that we are in the “weak men create hard times” part of the cycle. The circle of life, what goes up, must come down. Today I read a short poem online, it read:
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