The MODERN ROMANS - PART III - Garner Ted Armstrong & Gene H Hogberg - October 1969

Garner Ted Armstrong & Gene H Hogberg

This is the age of "The Great Escape." Millions jam giant stadiums every weekend and they like their sports rough. Violence and escapism fill the television screen. Nudity and perversion get top billing in the theater. Millions are spent on all forms of recreation. What's behind the mad craze for pleasure? America and Britain are in the grips of the greatest national pleasure binge ever. The fastest growing business in the United States today is, believe it or not, leisure, in all its forms. It's a strange paradox. Never have international and domestic problems been greater - Vietnam, crime, racial tensions, pollution, inflation, the crises in our overcrowded cities. And overhanging the entire picture is the arms race, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and – perhaps the biggest impending threat of all – overpopulation and worldwide famine. Yet never have the opportunities for "forgetting it all" been greater, especially in our technologically advanced Western societies. It is, indeed, the age of the Great Escape. Or as someone once called it, the "age with a split personality." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library