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Youth and Consumerism: The Lorenzaccio Syndrome
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The text is already in English, so per the instructions it is returned unchanged: An essay reads the youth riots and consumerist malaise through Musset's Lorenzaccio, arguing that young protesters, like the play's hero, imitate the very tyranny they denounce. Freud, René Girard, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World are invoked to analyse consumerism as a subtle tyranny. The piece ends with a call to inner conversion as resistance.
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