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Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society.

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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Photographer
Professor
Sociologist
Translator
Rheims
Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Money
Souls
Soul
Lows
Obsessional
Everything
Speed
Phobic
Time
Save
Anorexics
Sex
Anorexic
Protect
Detect
Society
Calories
Energy
Contain

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