By the time we become adults, most of us are so alienated from ourselves and the earth, indoctrinated by media, and deluded by “false needs” created by the consumer culture, that there’s little hope for us connecting with the other worlds surrounding us. In tribal cultures, shamans orhe...
Throughout its creation and rise, the New Party sought to unite alienated leftists who had grown disgusted by Bill Clinton?s embrace of the center-left Democratic Leadership Council. Posted By: FYI | October 08, 2008 at 05:35 PM Report Abuse A-M-E-N !!! We're all screwed because ...
Alienated or outcast. (I like the way the words alienated and outcast function as both verbs and nouns.) I think about what I’ve learned through being housebound, bedbound. What words, images, politics, emotions, literature, embodied-knowledge, etc. I’ve come to connect with. When I co...
And although physically not a “little man,” Bob is similarly “estranged from community and society […] alienated from work and […] from self; expropriated of individual rationality, and politically apathetic” (Mills xii, xviii). 2. Only the infant, Jack-Jack, and Helen do not seem ...
Once He has become an idol, God's alleged qualities have as little to do with my personal experience as alienated political doctrines do. The idol may be praised as Lord of Mercy, yet any cruelty may be committed in its name, just as the alienated faith in human solidarity may not even...
Alienated from school and classmates, he feels like an unworthy outsider, unable to achieve academic, relationship, and romantic successes that others in his world seem to easily obtain. After graduation, faced with a sagging economy and no job prospects, he employs energy, ingenuity, and ...
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty –Ralph Waldo Emerson Live your life so that when you die,you’re the one smiling and everyone around you is crying. ...
an attractive person, and decided to milk my charming personality instead. The glasses were an easy way to isolate myself from even having to consider keeping up some kind of face. Then I slowly came to feel that, well, maybe Ididwant my face to be visible. MaybeI liked my face. Is...
Remember, the reason we usually feel offended is because of the meaning we attach to what is said or done: “That means he reallydoesn’tcare!”“She’s saying I am no good!”“I knew he didn’treallylove me!”“She wouldn’t say that if she was …” And so the internal interpre...
3. Alienated teen or adolescent girl in the passenger side of a car driving down the highway, window rolled down, her hand swaying in the wind as she zips down a road to Who Knows Where. 4. Overhead shot of protagonist in the rain, arms spread, just letting the downpour COME. Laughi...