Russell's essay has the answer: > The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the ra

Russell's essay has the answer: > The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.