were the way to happiness and away from what he described as `` the anarchic syndrome '' -i.e. , smoking and drinking , phenobarbital , jazz , promiscuous sleeping-about , fast cars , slimming , negroes and their new republics , homosexuality , the abolition of the death penalty , and a host of other deviations from what he described as naturmenschlichkeit , or , in more words but shorter ones , a way of life more like the ants and the bees .