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The book is a valuable work, equal to the most beautiful views
and visions of the great humanists of the last two centuries, who
visualized human life empowered by the development of science
and technology, a far cry from the difficulties of the primitive past.
However, the visions of our new humanist are original, a product
of study of the current human conditions, deduced from analysis
of the mistakes of the new development and the painful illusions
of modern people. He feels for people’s suffering in the new
circumstances that were supposed to bring them well-being, but
instead only continue their troubles, denying the effects of
modern evolution. Gicevski identifies the main reason for
people’s un-freedom and permanent misfortune in the negative
aspects of social organization that enslaves people rather than
freeing them. Gicevski attacks the archenemy from various sides
by presenting the sick goals imposed to people. For Gicevski, it is
the social lack of concern for people’s happiness. People are
manipulated by demagoguery that instills wrong ideas about
attaining false goals. In their craze for wealth and shallow
competitions for property, fame and vain recognition, people are
not aware these ambitions only give rise to anxiety. It is even
more disastrous when states instill their own citizens with
illusions that they have to right to claim the wealth that belongs to
other people and states, turning wars into affairs of utmost
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