According to journalist and novelist Akst (77ie Webster Chronicle), modern life, particularly in the United States, resembles a giant all-you-can-eat buffet, offering more food, sex, credit, alcohol, drugs, gambling, and anything else that can be taken to excess than ever before. This is happening at the same time that long-standing social constraints on behavior, such as religion and tradition, are eroding. The result is a harder-than-ever struggle for self-mastery and control over one's destiny. Akst combines the disciplines of history, philosophy, psychology, economics, and literature in examining this phenomenon and inspires readers to view self-control in a positive light. Essential for all people concerned with their own over-indulgences and with the future of society in general.
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