![]() The very goods they create we’ve become dependent upon and seduces the consumer, the system perpetuates itself. There is a more subtle point that the worker produces their own means of oppression. The products aren’t meant to satisfy the workers desire. The product doesn’t belong to the worker but rather the capitalist. The product is alienated from the worker because: We are actually being involved in more beyonds and that is the cause of our cultural neuroses. They would say death of religion is only a perceptual phenomena. We truly are biased by the limited data presented in our times.ĪNSWER: He would say that transcendence has disappeared is a ridiculous conclusion. QUESTION: how would these Hegelians respond to Ernest Becker’s critique that it is precisely because the death of these “Beyonds” that man has sunken into a shared cultural neuroses. It's a metaphysical state that is a cause for a multiplicity of suffering. someone could be neurotic but could still be happy. There is a lot of suffering, but not all suffering shows up on the level of self understanding of the person. It is a metaphysical state that is supposed to belong together that is instead torn apart. Divided from our true nature, alienation is more than just a psychological phenomena. QUESTION: what is the nature of this alienation and what are its consequences?ĪNSWER: It is characterized by a certain lack of authenticity. “Therefore, alienation is a lack of self-worth, the absence of meaning in one's life, consequent to being coerced to lead a life without opportunity for self-fulfillment, without the opportunity to become actualized, to become one's self.” ![]() ![]() It is this extra distance that creates alienation. He got his notion of alienation from Hegel, who described an unhappy consciousness divided against itself, separated from its essence, which it has placed in a beyond. His work is informed by the conditions of the 19th century textile or mine worker, but remains pertinent to the service industry or white collar worker today. One of Marx’s major critiques of capitalism isn’t that it is motivated by avarice and greed but rather because it is alienating. With that said, I’ve decided to share these unedited notes on the off chance they are helpful to other readers. These notes were created during my reading process to aid my own understanding and not written for the purpose of instruction. My preferred way of engaging with books is reconstruction. ![]()
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