> I am against the modern hedonistic zeitgeist and, on the contrary, think a lot of current social issues could be mitigated by more discipline and "hard work"
While I sympathize totally with this, I'll also stand on what I said. F. Scott Fitzgerald's quote about "holding two opposite ideas in your mind at the same time, etc. etc."
If you don't have any work ethic at all ("the modern hedonistic zeitgeist") then maybe you won't ever exercise or keep your weight down. Or clean the garage.
If you really do, you don't have to keep beating yourself up about it.
Although you're right that, for some people, that might be a Good Thing.
While I sympathize totally with this, I'll also stand on what I said. F. Scott Fitzgerald's quote about "holding two opposite ideas in your mind at the same time, etc. etc."
If you don't have any work ethic at all ("the modern hedonistic zeitgeist") then maybe you won't ever exercise or keep your weight down. Or clean the garage.
If you really do, you don't have to keep beating yourself up about it.
Although you're right that, for some people, that might be a Good Thing.