We already have the statist... by Gunther Grass, a German Author

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“We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.”

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Name: Gunther Grass

Nationality: German

Date of Birth: Oct 16, 1927

Profession: Author

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

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Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

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