"We constitute a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, addicted people, who are satisfied when they manage to kill the time previously saved with so much effort." Current? Sadly yes... And it's hard to believe that these are words from 1976. They come from the book To Have or to Be? By Erich Fromm. Today is the 35th anniversary of his death. In a few days, on 23 March, it will be 115 years since the birth of this eminent philosopher and psychoanalyst, a great humanist.