KATHEON – “We can define two basic models of society, in a very conditional sense. One could be defined as heroic, and the other as hedonistic. The heroic model of society is based on principles that transcend everyday, earthly existence and its prosaic context. This principle could be spirituality, tradition, an idea or ideology (…)
In contrast to this, an example of a hedonistic society is, in a modern context, the globally predominant model of liberal democracy. Man is virtually indistinguishable from animal in these “free” civil societies, and the entirety of human existence is reduced to eating, finding shelter and mating”.
As I read I kept thinking of the heroic fighters of Hezbollah….