Precis Pleasure Seeking in Modern Times

A majority of people nowadays lead a merely animal existence. They believe in eating, drinking social parties, dancing, movies, the theatre, sports matches and similar diversions. They have a strong distaste for mental exertion and their life is devoid of any intellectual interests. They have absolutely no notion of a higher, cultured living and they resemble the ancient Romans in this. Unless some eugenic measures are taken, the future generations are not likely to be very different from the people of today. (82 words)