We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess

Daniel Akst

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Penguin Press, 2011

1594202818 / 9781594202810

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320 pages. dj wornAn intelligent and irreverent investigation into the age-old problem of self- control finds that, in the modern world, solving it is the most important thing we can do.More calories, sex, and intoxicants are more readily and privat ely available than at any time in memory. Pornography and gambling are now insta ntly and anonymously accessible to anyone with an Internet- connected computer. Trying to work? If so, chances are you're also struggling to resist the siren ca ll of the Internet-to say nothing of the snack machine. As America's bulging wai stlines can attest, mealtime is no longer a discrete part of the day, and our st ruggles with weight have never been more desperate. We Have Met the Enemy examin es overeating, overspending, procrastination, wayward sexual attraction, and oth er everyday transgressions that bedevil modern society.While temptations have multiplied, many of the longstanding social constraints on behavior have er oded. Tradition, ideology, and religion have lost their grip on many of us, whil e commonly accepted standards of attire, speech, and comportment in the public s phere have largely dissolved. Financial constraints, once a ready substitute for willpower, were swept away by surging affluence and the remarkable openhandedne ss of lenders. (And we all know what happened then.) A remarkable confluence of freedom, affluence, and technology are sorely testing the limits of human willpo wer.This conundrum of self-control has occupied thinkers since the time o f Socrates. Philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and lately economists have wrestled with the question of how it is possible for us to act against our own best interest, but the issue has never been more urgent than it is today. For af.…

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Titolo
We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess
Autore
Daniel Akst
Editore
Penguin Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2011
Condizione
Good
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Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1594202818
ISBN 13
9781594202810
Dimensioni
17.2cm x 3.2cm x 26.0cm
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