This is the era of indulgence.

Taste.

Smell.

Touch.

Hearing.

Sight.

All 5 senses of humans have been put on overdrive by the indulgent experiences that are being offered across the world.

Endless varieties of food.

Endless sights shown on social media.

Endless alluring smells and sensations.

Endless noise of opinions and stories.

5 senses hijacked to chase every possible sensory pleasure available.

Infinite souls chasing finite pleasures. Endlessly.

Feeling left out. Left behind. Pursuing mindlessly.

Ravaging the earth and the peace of mind. Deals and offers of all kinds.

The latest, the greatest, the grandest, the prettiest, the sleekest, the fastest, the hottest, the biggest, the customized, the curated, the personalized, and the trending.

The differentiator is the seller but the difference is also the separator.

Yet everyone wants to be differentiated.

What sets you apart?

What makes you better?

The popular culture now is individualism.

And individualism is all about being different.

The individual indulges with their own thoughts about themselves.

Their own thoughts about the world.

Separate from reality.

Such is the era of indulgence.

 

After my rhythmic essay on the Era of Indulgence, here are a few quotes elaborating on that idea and more.

 

29 Quotes on the Dangers of Over-indulgence and the Virtue of Moderation

 

  1. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. ― Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Our soul is sometimes a king, sometimes a tyrant. An uncontrolled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king to the most-feared tyrant. ― Seneca.
  3. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. ― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
  4. The ‘life of the party’ is subject to enjoying the shortest life, and suffering the longest death the world has to offer. ― T.F. Hodge
  5. Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments. – Rick Warren
  6. In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. – Dean Koontz
  7. A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper, and attacking other people. – Al-Ghazali
  8. Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. – Ronald Rolheiser
  9. Truth without love is imperious self-righteousness. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence. – Timothy Keller
  10. Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint… Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increases the capacity for service. – Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. – TC. J. Mahaney
  12. The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. — Robert Greene
  14. So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial. — Ossian Everett Mills
  15. The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive. — John F. Kennedy
  16. While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one’s own well-being. — Marianne Williamson
  17. L’Oreal’s slogan ‘because you’re worth it’ has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st-century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card. — Geoff Mulgan
  18. The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be. — Matt Chandler
  19. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Joseph Addison
  20. If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others. — John Fire Lame Deer
  21. Indulgence without restraint is like a ship without a rudder, destined to be tossed aimlessly by the waves of desire. – Unknown
  22. Moderation in all things, especially moderation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  23. Immaturity is the inability to delay self-gratification. — Mike Murdock
  24. Emotional self-control– delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman
  25. To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible. ― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms
  26. The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them. ― Louis C.K.
  27. What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? ― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters
  28. Money is a great servant but a bad master. ― Francis Bacon
  29. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.― Fight Club

 

Conclusion

The idea for Era of Indulgence was sparked by a couple of reels of food on Instagram where I saw obnoxious amounts and styles of food being prepared and served and hundreds of people commenting on the post that they can’t wait to try it.

I immediately thought, Damm, this is prime indulgence.

Endless varieties of everything and endless hordes of patrons.

Can the planet really hold this together?

So, I let the emotions flow and wrote everything that came to my mind based on that idea.

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