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In one of his writings Pascal speaks of this mania for diversion as being a sign of misery and fear which man cannot endure without such opiates.

Yes, and as tension mounts in this world, fear is increasing.

Does that explain why there is now such a big boom in the bomb shelter business??

We have so many new things to fear in this age of nuclear weapons, dreadful things which are too horrible to contemplate.

I doubt that `` fear parties '' and `` group confessionals '' will help very much.

Suppose we do get our fears out in the open, what then??

Isn't that where most of them are already -- right out on the front page of our newspapers??

Maybe we are talking about them too much.

The question is: what are we going to do about them??