Boredom
"...almost all inventions of the past fifty years have conspired to eliminate this insidious evil: from cars to television... absolutely everything, has been organized to amuse people, and the result is that never in history have people been so bored, because they have lost the habit of finding their amusement for themselves.
They need lots of noise and more and more friends in order not to feel lonely.
They also need to indulge in a fever of activity, and retirement is perhaps the number one incurable malady of the century, for it probably kills even more men than cars do."
- The Men in Your Life; Timeless Advice and Wisdom on Managing the Opposite Sex by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux (1968).
They need lots of noise and more and more friends in order not to feel lonely.
They also need to indulge in a fever of activity, and retirement is perhaps the number one incurable malady of the century, for it probably kills even more men than cars do."
- The Men in Your Life; Timeless Advice and Wisdom on Managing the Opposite Sex by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux (1968).