Hedonists rather than duty-bound

Submitted by Concerned European (Lithuania), Jan 10, 2007 at 01:18

Another idea that occurred to me - our generation has became increasingly more hedonistic rather than duty bound, whose slogan is "enjoy life and enjoy now". It was doubly easier for the generation of WWII to tolerate war-imposed limitations and controls since they were more duty-bound and the danger too much apparent.

however current hedonistic generation is very unwilling to support long term effort to combat the islamist danger which is much less apparent, much more like "nuisance", than Nazi or communist danger ever was. And since our generation wants to "enjoy now", it is quite likely that many of the people in West can sacrifice long term objectives for the sake of short term enjoyment, even if they understand and see the coming danger. Do not forget the famous dictum "Apres nous la deluge"(After us the flood), it was the slogan of the courtiers of the last French King Louis XVI in the period preceding the French Revolution.

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