play more, enjoy life. |
The Epicurian Organisation |
luxury harmony & pleasure |
This epicurian lifestyle: of ease, luxury, harmony and pleasure, must surely be the ultimate aspiration of mankind and all societies. Even the ancient Romans and Greeks attempted to achieve this through slavery, conquest and other means. Now today, in the 21st Century through technology - by applying and using his intellect - man could easily achieve this for the masses without slavery, oppression and the exploitation that past civilisations attempted. I was a child of the 1960s and believed the solution to man's problems lay in technology and its application. Indeed goods became widely available and cheap. Quality of life started to improve - an epicurian future looked feasible and highly likely. Then "the politicians" and society lost track, things started to get worse. Unemployment started to increase, companies made less profits, jobs and companies moved abroad chasing cheaper wages and things became worse. For the few last decades jobs have become more scarce, companies are making less money, the stock market is unstable and performing poorly, people are working harder, longer hours, for less pay, in fear of their job. Things have been getting worse: NOW it is time we "got back on track" and started making life and the world a better place.
a society and lifestyle as fantastic as his technical achievements. |
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