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Lost Luxury
Anny Onymons
Before the radio, movies, automobile, and television overwhelmed ns with their stagnant luxury, people were able to converse with each other sensibly. Not that these modern discoveries are not worthwhile; they are. But the inertia of their innovation $eems to have carried them beyond their present useful bounds. They are obliterating conversation.
Observe, in our day, a social gathering: the Wbmen talk of clothes, lack of servants, and other women; the men, lack of money. When these topics are exhausted, they turn frantically to the radio, _and sit back to have their tympanic membranes mercilessly assaulted by the trip-hammers of jazz or by the blatant hawkings for Hadacol... . . or they all go off to the movies; or they bring the family car to the rescue . , all conversational escapes.
“We have become a group of watchers, listeners, and at best talkative repeaters, instead of thinkers, doers, and that luxurious middle link—conversationalists.
Even in our casual remarks we have not the semblance of intelligent speech nor do we evidence wisdom in tlva-yery impetus of all conversation: questions.
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