In this week's magazine The last days of Nelson Mandela

• Observations

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    Soon our personalities will be purely ornamental

    Everything around us nowadays seems to hearken to the past. Soon, all human psyches will retain as decorative features the individualism and the individual memories that were once functional attributes.

    By   Will Self

• Columns

• Critics

• Backpages

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    Soon our personalities will be purely ornamental

    Everything around us nowadays seems to hearken to the past. Soon, all human psyches will retain as decorative features the individualism and the individual memories that were once functional attributes.

    By Will Self