Let me take half a step backward from that provocative stance. Of course we don't need to outlaw all fun, but we perhaps we really do need to outlaw some fun, to prevent people from overindulgence. Maybe a sin tax could be the way to go.
Everyone talks about the sense of meaning that came from fighting world war 2 and that was a time when freedom in the world was extremely precarious. There was a draft.
Purpose turns into slavery when you only have one purpose and people use violence to enforce it.
Getting married, having kids, buying a house, having a job. These are all constraints on a persons freedom.
But really, you look around and you see freedom? Really? Sorry for thinking bigger than that.
Maybe the opposite of what I said is true, that we’re so not free right now people are holding onto whatever freedoms they can not realizing the way they impact the bigger systems
Maybe what we need is not just specific interventions but antritrus law. Less control by any big organization, governmental or otherwise.