Ernest Becker quote:

"Hedonism is not heroism for most men. The pagans in the ancient world did not realize that and so lost out to the 'despicable' creed of Judeo-Christianity. Modern men equally do not realize it, and so they sell their souls to consumer capitalism or consumer communism or replace their souls with psychology. Psychotherapy is such a growing vogue today because people want to know why they are unhappy in hedonism."