Filling ourselves with nonsense.

In previous generations people where always busy.  Just working to put bread on the table was a very full time occupation.  Yet, they managed to learn more Torah then.  Someone once asked the Chasam Sofer, "how much should a Yeshiva Buchur learn durring Bein Hazmanim ?"  His answer was, "like a Baal Habus, 7 or 8 hours a day."  Today we do not have these standards, a Talmud Chacham learns 7 or 8 hours a day.    We do not realize how much this effects us.  When a person doesn't fill himself up with Torah and learning, he becomes an Adam Chaser (a person who is lacking).  He winds up filling this void with nonsense.

from a Shiur by Rabbi Wachsman