Why does man seem to have many more diseases than animals have? Why does man hate and kill in war when animals do not? Why does cancer increase? Why are there so many suicides? So many insane sex crimes? Why the hate that is anti-Semitism? Why Negro hating and lynching? Why back-biting and spite? Why is sex obscene and a leering joke? Why is being a bastard a social disgrace? Why the continuance of religions that have long ago lost their love and hope and charity? Why, a thousand whys about our vaunted state of civilised eminence! If we feel like questioning today, we can pose a few awkward questions. New world wars threaten, for the world's social conscience is still primitive. The advances of the age are advances in mechanism – in radio and television, in electronics, in jet planes. Our boasted humanitarianism still allows public opinion to approve of the barbaric sport of hunting. Our religion has not abolished usury and robbery. Our medicines have not done away with disease. Our education, politics, and economics lead to war. Our culture has not been very successful. Education should be a preparation for life. I hold that the aim of life is to find happiness, which means to find interest.
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