Consume for the sake of consumption, enjoy for the sake of enjoyment, and even shout out the slogan of "die during the day and come back at night". Everyone seeks happiness, and if you drink today, you will get drunk tomorrow. "To seek happiness is to satisfy it through consumption."
Consumption has become people's only real purpose. But people found that "the consumer's paradise did not give it the promised happiness."
"People are faced with a force that they can't control at all. Compared with this force, people are just a grain of dust. "
-"Happiness in Pain-Marcuse Fromm on Consumerism" is obviously not extreme hedonism. Is happiness a negative thing or a positive thing A: Definitely. Many saints in India are famous for their extreme asceticism. These practices of dedicating themselves to divinity or a primitive nature are usually swearing never to use one of the two legs, or swearing never to lift one arm for months or even years. Imagine this kind of asceticism, can ordinary people understand it? Think carefully, if there is no "happiness" in a beautiful life, how can it be called beautiful? I think "eat, drink and be merry" may not be a commendatory term, let alone a derogatory term. It is a graduated dashboard, and the position where your hand moves the pointer determines the balance between happiness and value.
So, why do people have the idea of "eating, drinking and having fun"? Leonidas in the 3rd century BC typically showed this theme in his own works:
Obviously, you were born mortal,
Summon up your courage and have fun in the feast.
Once you die, you have no enjoyment.
(Note: J.E. Wellington's analysis.
Eat, drink, and be merry in English poetry in the 17th century (1590- 1700), diss. ,
University of Florida, 1955, p. 42. )
You see, "once you die, there is no enjoyment for you." To a great extent, it was influenced by simple materialism and initial realism. The evolution of materialism has also made us lose our reverence and belief in life. There is no God, no heaven, only material and short life. Since there will be no sin in the afterlife, human beings need not seek happiness, and it is inevitable to eat, drink and be merry. Nihilism and money worship followed, and the evil and depravity of capitalism became more obvious with the support of materialism.
You see, "Eat, drink and be merry" is often accompanied by "Life is short"! Latin says "eat, drink, and be merry", and English translation means "seize every day". Is this "eat, drink and be merry" or "seize the day"?
You know Li Bai's Into the Wine, then do you know Li He's Into the Wine?
Glass clock, amber thick, small groove wine drops are really pearl red.
Cooking dragons, setting off firecrackers and crying jade, Luo Wei embroidered curtains surround the fragrant wind.
Blow the Yu Di and play the catfish drum; White tooth song, waist dance.
The situation is that youth will be dusk and peach blossoms will fall in red rain.
I advise you to get drunk all the time, and the wine won't reach Liu Ling's grave! Banquet is extremely luxurious: the cup is a "glass", when glass was as expensive as jade; Wine is a good wine, such as amber, which is brewed in a "small groove"; Meals are not just delicious food, but "cooking dragons and cannons"; The interior furnishings are "Luowei embroidered curtains". Music is all music in the sky, and people can listen to it several times: the flute is a keel flute, like a dragon singing in the distance; The drum is a catfish drum, like a turtle singing nearby. Singers and dancers are young and beautiful, with "white teeth" and "thin waist" The sound of frying pan and the smell of oil smoke are difficult to enter poetry, but in Li He's works, they are beautified by gorgeous words such as "crying with jade grease" and "fragrant wind", which makes people unforgettable for a long time.
All these express the poet's deep attachment to life. Red wine is like youth and blood, and meat cries in the oil pan. They are all life. Who will cry when I die? Those beautiful women will grow old, so will we, and the bright red peach blossoms will grow old, falling like rain in the wind. On the surface, it is to persuade people to eat, drink and get drunk, but on the contrary, it is an ideal rebound-despair.
Look again:
A new song and a glass of wine, the weather was old last year. When will the sunset come back?
There is nothing to do, flowers bloom and fall, and it seems familiar that Yan returns. Wandering alone in the small garden, fragrant path.
(Yan Shu)
Last spring, in this door, the girl's face contrasted with the peach.
Today, I came here again. I don't know where the girl went. Only the peach blossoms are still there, smiling in full bloom in the spring breeze.
(Cui Hu)
Life is endless from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is only similar year after year.
I don't know who Jiang Yue is waiting for, but I see the Yangtze River delivering water.
The white clouds have gone, and Qingfeng is at a loss.
(Zhang)
I lament my life for a while and admire the infinity of the Yangtze River for a while.
Fly with the flying fairy, hold the bright moon, and grow up.
(Su Shi) How desperate we should be at the thought of this! The inevitable sadness in our hearts about the passing of life always proves our motivation to "eat, drink and be merry". Maybe we also sit on the boat and sigh, "knowledge comes too suddenly and resentment is too deep"? Life is short, things are difficult, and having a moment of happiness is the most mellow. How can we have time to mourn the emptiness we feel? Existence and time itself are philosophical topics. If you feel sad, please eat, drink and be merry.
See what you ask:
I want to ask, like it, love it, love it, regardless of the consequences, don't worry about the future, seize my feelings now and do everything I want to do. Look, you're not having fun for yourself. Your music is all about someone. Those objects are gentle things in your life. "Float and grow up and hate less happiness, but love women and laugh. Drink for you to persuade the sunset, and leave the sunset between the flowers. " If, as Song Qi said, I am willing to exchange my daughter for a smile, is it just because of "eating, drinking and having fun"? It's more about the expression of emotions in my life.
So Li Bai came:
Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he wants to go, and never point his golden cup at the moon empty! .
Cook a sheep, kill a cow, sharpen your appetite, and let me, 300 bowls, take a big drink! .
Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng can drink and drink endlessly. Don't lament, just talk happily. That's good, but what's the point?
Have you noticed that you missed a sentence:
Since God has given talents, let them be used! As for the money, although it is scattered, it will get together again. You see, you have goals, ideas, efforts and struggles. Why bother about whether you are happy or not? Why bother to think about these lives and time? Please rest assured.
Finally, send a poem to the subject:
Roses in bud should be picked while they are young.
Time flies,
Today, this flower is still smiling.
Tomorrow it will wither and die.
The sun, the bright lanterns in the sky,
The higher it climbs,
The closer we get to the end of the journey,
Soon, it will sink into the western hills.
The most beautiful thing in life is youth,
High spirits, boiling blood,
Once wasted, it will go from bad to worse.
The lost years are hard to relive.
So, don't be shy and seize every opportunity.
Get married while you are young,
Because, if you lose a good time,
You will regret it for the rest of your life.
(robert herrick, advice for girls)
Do it.