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  • We live in a world of communication, everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

    "Passion and pessimism" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2003.