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What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern

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Michael Leunig
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Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Michael Leunig, based on documented lifetime 1945 to 2024. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308328 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308328 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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