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    • The Disturbing End of Our Modern ‘Me’ Culture

      The Disturbing End of Our Modern ‘Me’ Culture4

      In his popular work Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch wrote: To live for the moment is the prevailing passion—to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future.

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    • The Cruelty of Modern Death

      The Cruelty of Modern Death0

      Progress involves improving on the past. Once, we used leeches to suck out an excess of cancer-causing humors, or just blamed them on the wrath of the gods. In modern hospitals, we now image such tumors deep within the body, target them with synthetic chemicals or narrow beams of radiation, or excise them with clinical

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    • Friday Comic: Bribing the Guard0

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