The Satyricon
What bare face of humanity do we confront at the end of extreme hedonism and vanity?
📝ONGO's Reflection
This novel, baring the depravity of the Roman Empire in the first century AD, gives me chills, as if it had prophesied the vulgar capitalism of our own day. Reading the scene of the banquet of the freed slave Trimalchio, with all the manner of a vulgar upstart, the empty inner lives of those who commit every eccentricity to flaunt their wealth come across as both ludicrous and sorrowful. With an elegant style, Petronius satirizes the basest of desires and pierces the hollowness of humanity, lost and wandering amid material abundance. It is our shameful self-portrait reflected in a mirror two thousand years old.
"He who has a penny is worth a penny. You are what you have."Petronius, The Satyricon
"우리는 가진 것이 많을수록 자신이 더 위대하다고 믿는 병에 걸려 있다."
🌱Apply It Today
If you catch yourself clinging to appearances or spending just to impress others, give yourself a gentle laugh and seek the simple values that truly fill you.
