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Verdú, Vicente
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For Vicente Verdu, absence is the century's latest evil
The writer and journalist Vicente Verdu lists all the signs of a "surprising increase of absence" in our societies: "In the same way as cancer and Aids symbolize an era, Alzheimers is clearly the manifestation of a new ailment. Contrasting with cancer's cellular multiplication and the viral invasion of Aids, we now have a cerebral evolution toward absence. ... Work, which in the 19th century represented practically everything, lost a good part of its identity-building function at the end of the 20th century. Citizens have gradually passed from the status of producers of material and spiritual goods to the consumers of these goods. ... [The reign of absence] is not as serious as the fall of a civilisation, but marks a cultural state of permanent anxiety that nothing can calm."
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Does Spain pay too high a price for its permisiveness?
Reacting to the high proportion of cocaine users in Spain revealed in a UN report this week, journalist Vicente Verdú considers the reputation a necessary price to be paid for his country's reputation as a hedonist paradise. "Over the course of the last 10 or 15 years, all the studies conducted among professionals promoted Spain as the best place to live. Immigrants coming from the south, north or east saw in Spain a land of welcome so permissive that communities like San Fulgencio, where two thirds of the population is foreign, were created. ... In a few decades, reclusive Spain has opened its doors wide to allow escapades of every type to occur. ... Good wine abounds, laws on tobacco are broken, millions of lines of cocaine criss-cross the country. The sudden development of pleasure has become a veritable subject of research and development in the country, and all this without any need for laborious scientific planning."
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