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/^t/It seems, however, that today's immense social organisms are not oases of safety and peace any longer. People appear to lose control over huge communities which instead of tranquil and secure life offer danger and violence. Society causes too much pressure on its members, and social conventions, responsibilities and various social tasks, all intrinsicly connected with living in a city, confine city-dwellers and eventuate in multifarious abnormalities in their behaviour. Overpowering stress and ubiquitous "other people" deprive city-inhabitant of free time and privacy, result in stomach ulcers, fetishism, obesity and murder.