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August 24, 2005
John Berger
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied - but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing."
:: (1926~) English Painter, Teacher, Art Critic
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