>>11273513A meaningful life requires both. They are coupled. Asceticism has a purpose but it, and scrubbing any conception of experiencing beauty and the sensory from your mind, will leave you drained and empty. Ultimately a rejection of so-called hedonism is a dissociative process, wherein you rework and contort the architecture of your subconscious to translate inputs into something else. This is a form of conditioning and incurs conscious overhead, which again, will ultimately lead you to a point where you're lost and aimless.
