Re: Alienation

["Don E. Z'Boray" <zboray@newbie.net>]

> Does anyone have any good quotes dealing with the
> topic of alienation? Thank you.
> 
>                           -Julia
Julia,
George Osner may have found all the brief quotes that relate to the
topic of alienation, for it is a 
from Samuel Butler whom you can begin researching at
http://www.motivationalquotes.com/People/butler.shtml:
	"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
resource on the topic:
"An Introduction To Marx's Theory Of Alienation" by Judy Cox
  (http://www.littleprints.free-online.co.uk/pubs/isj79/cox.htm) ...
and Marx ought to know - he helped to alienate half the world from
the other half, right?  ;-)
	"The alienation of the worker in his product means not
	 only that his labor becomes an object, an external
	 existence, but that it exists outside him, independently,
	 as something alien to him, and that it becomes a power
	 on its own confronting him."
some dandy quotes related to alientation ought to jump at you if you
check the works of Chomsky (I think he really detests society and
culture), or the late Herbert Marcuse (he used to) or the public and
courtroom utterances of the lawyer William Kunstler ... or the German 
philosopher Hegel.  all of these chaps wrote volumes about how
capitalism creates alienation of the worker class.  but then, they did
not have the internet.  ;-)
from Mao Tse Tung on the alienation of the peasant class from those
who rule:
	"Their lives are so squalid that the majority can
	 only live as a caricature of the Master. . ."
but the communists and their predecessors were way to dry - what you
can find to quote from their works pale next to the words that Virginia
Woolf used to paint the image of alienation in a reader's mind.  from
"Jacob's Room", in the Harvest edition (pp. 92-93):
	Let us consider letters—how they come at breakfast,
	and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green
	stamps, immortalized by the postmark—for to see one's
	own envelope on another's table is to realize how soon
	deeds sever and become alien.
	Then at last the power of the mind to quit the body is
	manifest, and perhaps we fear or hate or wish annihilated
	this phantom of ourselves, lying on the table. … Ah, but
	when the post knocks and the letter comes always the
	miracle seems repeated—speech attempted. Venerable are
	letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
	Life would split asunder without them
and from the New Testament of the Bible (Matthew 16:25):
	" ... losing our souls in order to gain them."
from Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and difference in the global
cultural economy" in Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (eds.)
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, Columbia University
Press, New York, 1994:
	"The world we live in now seems rhizomic even
	 schizophrenic, calling for theories of rootlessness,
	 alienation and psychological distance between individuals
	 and groups, on the one hand, and fantasies (or nightmares)
	 of electronic ubiquity on the other."
"Fortress Europe" as a problem not only for the many it locks out,
but also for those it locks in.  The much-celebrated "free circulation"
of people hardly covers the ethnic minorities living in Europe.
In "Crossfires" by Helma Lutz, Nira Yuval-Davis and Ann Phoenix (Pluto
Press, London, 1996, p. 5), H. Lutz put it: 
	"... the boundaries between Europe and the rest of the
	 world are constantly being fortified. Never before has
	 Europe been concerned so much with legitimizing measures
	 designed to keep out the 'alien flood'.  Since measures
	 to exclude 'others' go together with the construction of
	 cultural, religious or 'racial' otherness, racial
	 minorities within the European Union have gradually become
	 the targets of this 'othering'."
	"Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't care. I've been here 31 years,
	 and there's nothing here for me."
		- an unidentified female member of the Heaven's Gate
		  cult member whom i saw in a videotape that was
		  replayed on the news.
- now  *that's*  alienation!
atbty,
-- don  ;-)
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