One reason: We're just about the first generation to learn universal hedonism in our youth.
Not that there's any point in sermonizing about such a self-consciously anarchic celebration of adolescent hedonism.
So will serious reflection, with its attendant uncertainty and anxiety, replace all that defiant hedonism?
In Asia, some politicians have tried to profit from online hedonism by presenting themselves as devotees.
The media squawked about the return of the hedonism and lavish parties of the dot com era.
There is so much evidence of the latter choice that pundits have invented a new word cyber-hedonism to describe it.
One appealing thing about cyber-hedonism is that, compared with politics, it's less likely to attract the authorities' attention.
" Wine writer Stephen Brook echoed the sentiment when he tweeted: "Emerged from Hedonism Russian-backed Mayfair wine shop torn between envy and revulsion.
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The sustainable food movement is about hedonism, A to Z: Be greedy.
It is a world whose keynotes are enlightened hedonism and scientific curiosity.
Raw milk stirs the hedonism of food lovers in a special way.
" But she added: "Hedonism is more Ferrari showroom than fine-wine mecca.
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" Many support Kilson's view that hip hop is little more "than an updated face on the old-hat, crude, anti-humanistic values of hedonism and materialism.
Split over two floors in the heart of Mayfair, Hedonism isn't so much a wine shop as a showroom containing the greatest wines in the world.
As politicians exhort them to cultivate austerity, the rampant hedonism that seemed amusing and enviable in the pre-credit-crunch years, and which super-rich footballers epitomised, now seems tasteless.
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At one of Playboy's first big bashes after going private in 2011, much seemed as usual for a brand that has embodied American hedonism for nearly 60 years.
Meanwhile, though, other forms of hedonism are quietly declining.
In between those two exhibitions comes the Venice Biennale, the international art fest that sees artists and oligarchs sharing Bellinis and boats for a week of hedonism at the end of May.
Complaining how dreadfully hard she has always found it to put words on paper, Ms Bedford looks back on the desultory years of false starts and failures, of self-confessed hedonism, sloth and doubt.
Political leaders and religious establishments are placed in a dilemma by the rise of cyber-hedonism: do they follow their youngsters onto the net, or try vainly to lure them away from the computer?
Despite what it may seem Slow Food is not just about a bunch of gourmands working out how to match a sweet Asti Spumante with anchovies, trotting across the globe to indulge in some gastronomic hedonism.
Dominated by showy nightclubs and a "face control" policy that sees doormen turning away clubbers whose image doesn't fit the venue's, what the clubbing scene lacks in innovation it makes up for in energy and high-end hedonism.
Philosopher David Brax of Lund University in Scania, Sweden makes a case for hedonism, arguing that our values -- things like friendship, health, prosperity and knowledge -- would not be worth anything if they did not bring us pleasure.
In authoritarian countries with rising living standards such as Russia and China, until recently official tolerance of cyber-hedonism has been a sort of Faustian pact offered by the authorities: we will let you enjoy yourselves, in new and unconventional ways, if you keep off politics.
Hard times be damned, Disco embraced capitalism, hedonism, and just plain fun and managed to be just about everything Punk was not: pop tunes for the often glittery masses, easier on the ears, and simple to dance to (who could ever forget the hustle).
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Sleep in Colombo's colonial era Park Street Hotel, bed down at the immaculately restored Illuketia estate near Galle, or, if urges for the beach are simply too strong to ignore, opt for an extended stay at the Dutch colonial Beach House bungalow near Tangalle, where, amid antiques and attentive staff and a personal stretch of private beach, you can experience history and hedonism in equal, enchanting measure.
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