问答题
【F5】
Thus, despite its extraordinary achievements in art, science, intellectual, moral and political life, the United States is a nation in which tens of thousands of young people flee reality by opting for drug-induced lassitude: a nation in which millions of their parents retreat into video—induced stupor or alcoholic haze: a nation in which legions of elderly folk vegetate and die in loneliness; in which the flight from family and occupational responsibility has become an exodus
: in which masses tame their raging anxieties with Miltown, or Librium, or Equanil, or a score of other tranquilizers and psychic pacifiers.【F6】
Such a nation, whether it knows it or not, is suffering from future shock.