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  • Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

    Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.274, Bloomsbury Publishing