Usually, I read for escape and entertainment but I took one
of my old psychology books out entitled The Sexual Wilderness
so I could compare it with the sexual mores of today. The
psychologist predicted the death of tenderness and commitment
with the new sexual permissiveness. I really don't think
that has happened for any but the incurably promiscuous.

This book was written in l968 and the writer took the position
that instant gratification was the bane of our society and he
wrote this over 40 years ago. I do believe he was right about this. Our children seem to be unable to delay instant
pleasure for possible greater rewards. I am thinking of the
mountain of debt Americans have gone into for half million
dollar houses on a l00,000. dollar salary. Credit card debt
keeps increasing among young families and they are caught in
a web from which they seem unable to escape. The way of
escaping is austerity and it is so hard when our society stresses affluence.

Our political system is in the same mess and we are going to
have to spend money on the social programs that the Tea Party is resisting. We can no longer let the poor and the
middle class bear the brunt of it all.

Where does it all end? You tell me because I don't know.