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An outline of the model

At the beginning of this book I shall try to put the subject of leisure and travel in a broader perspective. I shall also immediately outline my standpoint, show from what angle I am presenting my arguments, what my philosophy of life is, what I believe the social system we should be striving for looks like and thus lay my cards on the table so that everything is clear from the very outset. This will make it easier to understand what I am writing about. Figure 1 will serve as a skeleton for our purposes.

This diagram presents a kind of overall system. Its centre represents the focal point of our considerations: the recreation cycle of man in industrial society. The cycle begins with man and the spheres of everyday life ...

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