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Our direction of economic affairs is scarcely moreencouraging. We live in an economic system in which a particu-larly good crop is often an economic disaster, and we restrictsome of our agricultural productivity in order to "stabilize themarket," although there are millions of people who do not havethe very things we restrict, and who need them badly. Right nowour economic system is functioning very well, because, amongother reasons, we spend billions of dollars per year to producearmaments. Economists look with some apprehension to thetime when we stop producing armaments, and the idea that thestate should produce houses and other useful and needed thingsinstead of weapons, easily provokes accusations of endangeringfreedom and individual initiative.We have a literacy above 90 per cent of the population. Wehave radio, television, movies, a newspaper a day for everybody.But instead of giving us the best of past and present literatureand music, these media of communication, supplemented byadvertising, fill the minds of men with the cheapest trash, lack-ing in any sense of reality, with sadistic phantasies which ahalfway cultured person would be embarrassed to entertain evenonce in a while. But while the mind of everybody, young andold, is thus poisoned, we go on blissfully to see to it that no"immorality" occurs on the screen. Any suggestion that the gov-ernment should finance the production of movies and radioprograms which would enlighten and improve the minds of our
people would be met again with indignation and accusations in
the name of freedom and idealism.
We have reduced the average working hours to about half
what they were one hundred years ago. We today have more free
time available than our forefathers dared to dream of. But what
has happened? We do not know how to use the newly gained
free time; we try to kill the time we have saved, and are glad
when another day is over.
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