What do people expect today? What is the ultimate goal sought today? It is to be well off. It is to be well off all together. But what is meant by "being well off'? Since the root is uncertain and the budding of the object is obscure, people finally seek peace centering around themselves, to seek happiness centering around themselves and to seek satisfaction centering around themselves. Hence, they succumb to the pitfall of pleasure-seeking. Since people think that death is the end of life, man wants to be well off in the ideal world they have made. He wants to cut a brilliant figure on the world's stage. In the end one succumbs to the pitfall of pleasure-seeking. All of the ethics and moral standards in the United States today are fallen. There are many aspects of the fall of value. Today historical tradition is rejected, and parent, brother, husband and wife relationships in a family are destroyed. All other relationships are removed for the sake of individual personal pleasure. This is absolutely flabbergasting.
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