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Our Civilization today

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The following article was published in the European edition of  The Wall Street Journal on October 28th, 2011 and provides a good example of what is wrong with our society today. The love of sensory pleasures has taken over the love for another human being. The 'I Don't' Honeymoon By JULIA REED The honeymoon was to begin in Paris because that was, more or less, where we began. When I met my fiancĂ©, I was in my early 20s and living in Washington, D.C. He was almost twice my age and living in London, so Paris is where we got together—where he romanced me over the course of seven years.    Hadley Hooper for The Wall Street Journal   Sometimes our visits were fevered two-day jaunts; sometimes, when we had the use of his sister's sprawling apartment, they'd last for more than a week. ...