Morning Comrades and welcome back to the patreon-only part 2 of this series. Thanks to everyone that stuck through Wednesday’s longer than usual piece and here’s a promise that I will try to keep it shorter with this part.
When we think and talk about alienation, or rather self-estrangement which is today’s preferred psychological term, today we predominately think, discuss and argue within the realm of the individual. The discussion rarely ventures into the systemic realm of alienation as discussed on Wednesday, sadly ironic as that it as it only proves the point made in Wednesday’s dispatch but that is just the reality we exist in. Stoically demanding that all discussion deal with pain systemically, whilst technically correct, really don’t help anyone and if anything actually makes these discussions become unattractive to have in the first place. Pro-tip if you needed one in regards to radicalising your community. Everything is perceived and experienced on an individual level and never on a systemic level ( precisely as the concept of alienation explains ) and thus all talk starts on the individual level. Again, subtle pro-tip for our collective reality.
Despite the shallow promise and bigger lie that in the future we all would be connected premised in the late 90s with the advent of the internet, I would argue that the majority of people here in the “west” feel terribly alone, frustrated, angry and alienated from others and society as a whole. This is the jump-off for today’s second part on Alienation: a look as to why, where our understanding of this reality comes from and what to do about it. A mixed bag of on-the-ground realities, philosophy and a little old working dude wisdom from yours truly.
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