Christ and the Beat Generation

Life is only a pile of rubbish.  What have we to look forward to?  Somebody is going to start a war, and we go into the arm.  Then an atomic bomb will drop, and it will be all over. This isn’t what you believe, is it! But, this is the world and life view of the neo-hedonist, who believes that the chief end of life, the sole and chief good in life is to gratify the pleasure-seeking instincts and dispositions.  Pleasure and pleasure-seeking are the Alpha and the Omega of a blessed life. The...