Looking for a good time?

A quote from " Pleasure seeking is normal and natural", the Guardian, December 16 2004:

“...pleasure can only be a transient sensation, the feeling of warming up when cold, or of eating when hungry. [Physiologist Michel Cabanac] believes that the lack of these gaps between how we feel and how we want to feel explains a lot of misery in modern society. "We're not hungry, we're not cold, we have everything,"... The result, he says, is that we are tempted to seek pleasure in other ways, by taking drugs, or over-indulging in pleasurable activities. Extremely hedonistic lifestyles may be caused by compulsive behaviour leading to an endless craving for pleasurable sensations, or subtle damage to the underlying brain circuitry, he adds.

我想起一個叫楊晨的鄭州女生的話：「贵族们不缺少食物，他们的痛苦必然另有来由。」

也想起John Locke和他的pursuit of happiness. 歡愉是過渡性的，只有追求快樂的自由是真快樂。但是現代人隨時可以滿足歡愉的基本條件，實際上是失效了。當我們吃飽穿暖睡足，我們該另找歡愉的替代品嗎？飽暖的時候，甚麼樣的快樂值得追尋？

我去吃一粒朱古力再告訴你。