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estrangement, the symptoms of a dying spirit. Tales of Our Traveler
Simultaneously, while the human becomes
By Tyler Thompson, COMP student
increasingly dependent on effective functioning of

its systems of communication, its tools, and its
tribal structures, man also becomes increasingly
vulnerable to their dysfunction.
But every quantum of my faith rings out that the
human being is far, far from the end. n

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