Gambling

Gambling In a world fraught by deadly ecological problems, the idea of discussing the future of gambling may seem frivolous. Yet it is far from that. As a fundamental human activity, it deserves to be studied without cultural or religious bias for the key that it may provide to survival. We have been fed a lot of myths about our wish for homeostasis, which is really a state of bovine contentment. To attempt to achieve this state we consume mountains of pills and rivers of alcohol. Somehow we seem to feel that if we can deny our essential humanity long enough, we can solve our problems. When we attempt to grow, we are considered mentally ill, masochistic, or naive. Outworn Freudian or Skinnerian approaches to human behaviour are pushed at us, and we seriously consider the nightmare possibilities of Beyond Human Freedom and Dignity. If we are to design for a healthy future, we must remove our blinders and examine the total human personality from the point of view of health, not sickness. Consider gambling. It is a fundamental human activity-- that is, people have always gambled, are gambling now, and will continue to gamble, in the future. Yet we are gambling, human, society, rather, gambler, chance, time, individual, humanity, gamble, future, world, total, problems, making, life, involved, action, we, yet, while, solve, sense, personality, people, part, need, must, masochistic, learn, key, instead, impulse, growth, gamblers, fundamental, elderly, wrong, world's, without, whole, whether, well-being, viewed, view, victorians, unknown, turning, take, suppress