“Conditioned and regulated man needs his nightly whodunit on television. There he vicariously experiences adventure which has long since vanished from his monotonous world. In the Western here, the average man in house slippers can see himself once more as an image of virile strength. Tourism supplements a world deprived of experiences with “the sights and sounds of faraway places.” Colorful posters promise encounters with strange lands and strange customs, but at the camping places and beaches we do in fact meet people exactly like ourselves, and hardly ever does anyone escape his own circles”.
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Moltmann, Jurgen, Robert E. Neale, David L. Miller, and Sam Keen. Theology of Play. (1st ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.)