Letters

Rich victims of the pleasure trap

When I visited Beijing last year on an invitation by a friend who runs a luxury and sports car modification business, I met with some rich second-generation youths who were my friend's customers.

One of the youths told me that what he was most worried about everyday was how to entertain himself or keep himself busy. He sounded as if his pleasure senses had reached saturation point from the best foods, cars, clothes, accessories and other toys and mediums one can imagine. He said that he was tired of chasing the next pleasure rush and needed something else in life but was not sure what it could be.