Men want something new. They struggle over mountains for Yukon gold, push across subcontinents, and walk out into space. They look for a frontier where they will cross into pure, fresh experience, feeling wholly one with the wonder of being alive.
No one wants to feel as though he is walking a worn backyard path that leads nowhere. It is plainly less than living is meant to be. But sooner or later the mortal dream of life and intelligence in matter takes on just this character. Those who embark on new experiences in the hope that these in themselves will provide fresh life soon find that their outlook becomes jaded.
Men try to escape in many ways. Much as false advertising promises something incomparable, drinking promises release from inhibitions; amoral sex a new freedom; drugs a new "cool," "high," or "way out" view.
