Gambling
Sir, —l have never voted Labour, but I think I might be tempted to do so in the next British General Election if only because of Mr Callaghan’s proposal to make some practical use of my country’s mania for gambling. There is no actual harm in spending hours on end studying “pools,” or in playing a fool game like “Bingo,” but what disturbs me is that in societies where such things happen the main business of so many people’s lives resolves itself into a fixation on acquiring easy money without using intelligence or effort. Unless we are content to become zombies with no thought of anything except what’s in the jackpot, it seems a dehumanising process, leading to a dehydration of the soul. If even a portion of this collective idiocy can be usefully directed into the greater service of humanity then, perhaps, a wholesale deterioration in the human spirit may find a certain amount of justification.—Yours, etc., CARACTACUS. March 7, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 16
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163Gambling Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 16
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