What's behind the MAD CRAZE FOR PLEASURE - Gene H Hogberg - June 1963

Gene H Hogberg

Today more time is spent in watching television than in working. Brutality in sports is taken for granted. America and Britain are going the way of Rome - and, like Rome, they don't know it! "'Let's live it up' has become the password of our time," writes noted sociologist Howard Whitman. Famous historians, political and religious leaders are deeply concerned over the maddening rush of Americans to satisfy every twanging sensual impulse while trying to hide from the awesome dangers of the nuclear age. What has gone wrong? There seems to be no end to senseless, idiotic antics on the part of our youths, from piano smashing to the latest fad of "shooting" cough medicines into one's veins to "get a kick," Americans of all ages are literally being DRUGGED INTO DREAMLAND in front of their television sets - so much so that the - weekly man-hours spent in TV viewing now surpasses the total weekly man-hour output of all productive labor by 27%, Think of it! A fantastic 2,600,000,000 man-hours a week are flitted away before TV - or as they say in Britain, the Telly, WHAT AN ENORMOUS WASTE OF TIME AND TALENT! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library