# Why Hedonism Enslaves You

Because unlike your mind, your body and the material world in
general are subjects to fate.

Fate = Laws of nature + Logics (causes and effects)

So there is not really a free will in the material world. In addition
to fate, there is randomness. But since you can't control randomness
too, there is no free will anyway.

Free will derives from the mind and the spirit. Because those are
free from fate. It's like playing a visual novel: You play pre-written
scenarios with some randomly generated parts but you can make your
choices with your MIND. So you can choose a route.

Hedonism seeks materialistic pleasures. By that, it makes your mind
and spirit far more dependent on your body. Hence it makes your
mind and spirit subjects to fate. This makes you lose your free
will.

For example, if you drink alcohol much, you'll be drunk. If you
watch porn, you'll be arroused. It's not your will to be drunk or
to be arroused. There is no free will in these cases.

(Well, it can be your WILL as the philosophical term WILL but what
I mean is the usual meaning. Not the term WILL.)


However, I'm not saying the material world is therefore an evil.
It's not.

It's more like a double-edged sword. The material world is not
inherently wrong. But to affect the material world, you need your
body. Because of that you become a subject to fate.

So the best way is becoming as independent as possible from fate
while still holding good control of the material world via your
body. And deal with the material world by making arts. Art converts
the temporal into the eternal.