ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how elements of our lives in the past might be the basis for the pleasures we seek and enjoy in the present. Sociopleasure is almost as general as air. It is why there are so few hermits and so many willing members of vast cities, so many concerts, displays of fireworks, and such a swirl of people in the piazza. It is almost wholly taken for granted that people generally enjoy some company of other people. There appear to be far fewer people and certainly fewer religious, political, and similar groups who believe in absolute aloneness than who accept severe embargoes on physiopleasure. The sociopleasure of morality is one reason why the good guys usually win and why morality plays, from Chaucer's tales to today's television network serials, have always gained a serious and appreciative audience.
