रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Not sure why The Guardian has since deleted this article by Jonathan Franzen:
"What's Wrong With The Modern World?" [2013] (https://web.archive.org/web/20130915070641/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/13/jonathan-franzen-wrong-modern-world).
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Jonathan Franzen: what's wrong with the modern world
While we are busy tweeting, texting and spending, the world is drifting towards disaster, believes Jonathan Franzen, whose despair at our insatiable technoconsumerism echoes the apocalyptic essays of the satirist Karl Kraus – 'the Great Hater'