The Media, Far From Being A Conspiracy

In Preindustrial Cultures Leisure Is Scarcely A Burden Or A "problem" Because It Is Built Into The Ritual And Ground Plan Of Life For Which People Are Conditioned In Childhood; Often They Possess A Relatively Timeless Attitude Toward Events.

If Anything Remains More Or Less Unchanged, It Will Be The Role Of Women.

It Is Not New For The Older Generation To Bewail The Indolence Of The Young, And There Is A Tendency For The Latter To Maintain Much Of The Older Ethic Screened By A New Semantics And An Altered Ideology.

A Decline Of Exuberance Is Just Barely Noticeable In America, Making Itself Felt Particularly Among The Most Highly Educated And The Well-to-do In A Loss Of Appetite For Work And Perhaps Even For Leisure.

Those Who Are Excluded From Meaningful Work Are, By An Large, Excluded From Meaningful Play.