I saw that Russell Brand commented on his interview with Tucker Carlson this year and Elizabeth Rovere in the previous year that he was lost in this world of pleasure, of individualism, of hedonism and of Epicureanism but now he found Jesus, the God in the flesh, and that his soul is saved.

Now granted, I don't know how familiar Tucker Carlson is with this philosophy. I know that Senator Josh Hawley made a whole article this summer screeching about how Americans are 'liberal epicureans' or 'epicurean individualists' or whatever.

Now, I don't know why it is that these men often come up with these arguments based out of fear tactics, based on exalting mystical supersitions which they have no knowledge of whatsoever.

Take Hawley's article and you will see him criticize Epicurus but he paints a straw man, a fake Epicurus and criticizes him, he cites no sources, not even the famous biography by Laertius. He mentions nothing about any other philosophers, no Plato, no Aristotle, no nothing.

Indeed on his letter to Pythocles he tells them that people who have one simple explanation to the celestial phenomenon of stars are charlatans.

" to lay down as assured a single explanation of these phenomena is worthy of those who seek to dazzle the multitude with marvels."

Would it not be applicable to say this is the case also with those who seek to dazzle the multitude with tales of patriotism, christianity, utopian worlds, etc....