The book by the Italian sociologist F. Berardi is devoted to the phenomenon of mass murder and suicide in the modern world. Why does a boy come to school and kill his teachers and classmates, why one evening a man decides to shoot people in a cinema during a screening of "Batman", which prompted Breivik to kill 71 people? Why, despite rising living standards and boundless progress, the number of suicides in developed countries is growing year by year and mainly among the younger generation?The author examines the social origins and prerequisites for these phenomena in our daily lives. Exploring the high-profile stories of the end of the past - the beginning of the new century, Berardi finds the reasons for what happened in the biographies of criminals, the social situation that surrounded them (work, relationships with other people). It shows how the modern world suppresses and oppresses people, and what terrible consequences this entails.The publisher's layout has been saved in a4.pdf format.