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The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of... read more

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Depression is a most unpleasant, harrowing and incapacitating mental condition, but as this and numerous other reports suggest, it is not the only symptom of the malaise that haunts the new generation born into the brave new liquid modern world - whereas it did not seem to affect, at least not to the same extent, their immediate predecessors.
 

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