#alientation

[raisongardee]

"Jusqu’à la fin du XIXe siècle, en Amérique et en Europe, les paysans employés dans ces établissements sont généralement très indisciplinés, car la logique industrielle heurte leurs rythmes de travail, leur conception du gain et leurs manières d’interagir. L’encadrement de tels travailleurs vise moins à les rendre productifs qu’à les rendre dociles ; il s’agit de les plier à des impératifs jusqu’alors inconnus d’eux que sont la régularité, la standardisation, la précision des tâches et le soin d’équipements qui ne leur appartiennent pas."

Thibault Le Texier, Le maniement des hommes, 2016.

#thibault le texier #industrie #travail #alientation

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

2022 Hilton Head Island Lantern Parade 11.12.22  :: [Steve Eberhardt]

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“Soren Kierkegaard argued that it was the separation of intellect from emotion, from empathy, that doomed Western civilization. The "soul" has no role in a technocratic society.The communal has been shattered. The concept of the common good has been obliterated. Greed is celebrated. The individual is a god. The celluloid image is reality. The artistic and intellectual forces that make transcendence and the communal possible are belittled or ignored.The basest lusts are celebrated as forms of indentity and self-expression. Progress is defined exclusively by technological and material advancement. All that is human is obliterated. This creates a collective despair and anxiety that is fed by glitter, noise, and false promises of consumer-culture idols.The despair grows ever-worse, but we never acknowledge our existential dread. As Kierkegaard understood, "the specific character of despair is precisely this : it is unaware of being despair."

Those who resist are relentlessly self-critical. They ask the hard questions that mass culture, which promises an unachievable eternal youth, fame and financial success, deflects us from asking. What does it mean to be born? What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? How do we live a life of meaning? What is justice? What is truth? What is beauty? What does our past say about our present? How do we defy radical evil?

We are in the grip of what Kierkegaard called "sickness unto death" - the numbing of the soul by despair that leads to moral and physical debasement. Those who are ruled by rational abstractions and an aloof intellectualism, Kierkegaard argued, are as depraved as those who succumb to hedonism, cravings for power, violence, and predatory sexuality. We achieve salvation when we accept the impediments of the body and the soul, the limitations of being human, yet despite these limitations seek to do good. This burning honesty, which means we always exist on the cusp of despair, leaves us, in Kierkegaard's words, in "fear and trembling". We struggle not to be brutes while acknowledging we can never be angels. We must be able to see our own face in the face of the oppressor.

The theologian Paul Tillich did not use the word "sin" to mean an act of immorality. He, like Kierkegaard, defined sin as estrangement. For Tillich, it was our deepest existential dilemma. Sin was our separation from the forces that give us ultimate meaning and purpose in life. This separation fosters the alienation, anxiety, meaninglessness, and despair that are preyed upon by mass culture. As long as we fold inward and embrace a hyper-individualism that is defined by selfishness and narcissism, we will never overcome this estrangement. We will be separated from ourselves, from others and from the sacred.

Resistance is not only about battling the forces of darkness. It is about becoming a complete human being. It is about overcoming estrangement. It is about our neighbour. It is about honoring the sacred. It is about dignity. It is about sacrifice. It is about courage. It is about freedom. It is about the capacity to love. Resistance must become our vocation."

(Chris Hedges in "America, The Farewell Tour")

[h/t Ian Sanders]

#parade #Steve Eberhardt #Hilton head #Lantern Parade #Chris Hedges #quotes #articles #fear and trembling #estrangement #alientation #Ian Sanders

[poemsfornic]

This man

This man walks home a little drunk sunken in his own thoughts a darker day than most with four beers on the top of it four beers is the depth of drink that fully loosens the tears from the toxic masculinity and they flow out in throbbing sobs and wails and snot and no words because he is alone he slurps on a peach shake it feels like a little comfort and he sobs and sobs all the tears from forever and from today as he walks and just lets them go lets them go down his eyes and onto this cheeks to the corner of his mouth where they taste like salt A little drunk was a euphemism for more drunk than not And he thinks about his daughter who he loves and hasn't told exactly that way but she knows, he's sure Did you know there are aliens out there? He knew because that's just how numbers work but he was right They've arrived and lower the loop of rope from the sky the perfect little shape for a human head because they want to know what goes on in there. And it goes right around his head and they hoist him up and crack his neck and he was drunk so he never even knew just like "crack" and it was over and his body hoisted up above the sidewalk with the cup of the peach milkshake falling down on the street as his body is pulled up and up into the waiting ship his hand still tight around the lid and straw And the aliens say "why is his face all wet" and "what is this stuff in his mouth" "is this what all humans are like?" "are they all this fragile?" "we will have to try harder to preserve the next one" "maybe there is something about the neck we need to know" "oh well maybe the next one will go better, onward and upward i guess."

#poem #poems #poets on tumblr #poets of tumblr #poets #poetry #poet #poetsoftumblr #create #creation #alientation #aliens #alien #peachmilkshake

[arsonistman]

I have nothing against angst/ hurt/comfort fics having Aventurine being the one going through the horrors, but omfg I need to see Ratio get absolutely destroyed too

#I get it’s usually Aventurine bc he’s easier to inflict horrors upon #but ratio still has is issues yknow #the lack of acknowledging his feelings and deep seated insecurities of not being able to get a gaze from nous + his bitterness towards the #genius society + constantly being alientanted bc of his intelligence and bluntness???? #he’s a more difficult character to grasp but MAN there’s still a lot of fun stuff for him to deal with #ik I’ll write some for myself (already kinda working on it) #but I will complain nonetheless #txt #star rail #hsr #aventio

[knithacker]

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#knitting #handmade #diy #alien #knit alient #alien autopsy

[cyberpunkboytoy]

Calling it now, in the next batch of anniversary covers Till is gonna sing Black Sorrow and we're all going lose our collective minds

#alien stage #alnst #alient stage till #ivantill #textpost

[mejcinta]

The depth and intrigue of Helaena being the only direct female relative to Alicent left, them being put in several scenes together and under near similar circumstances and plights (e.g being married to rather distant Kings that don't quite understand them, bearing Queenship like a burden more than it is a privilege, their love and dedication to their children), them being trapped together in the towers of the Keep when the enemy takes them as prisoners, both experiencing death as a form of liberation from their grief rather than a horror. Will I be able to bear it ????

#alient and helaena #hotd #house of the dragon #fire and blood #green queen #dreamer queen #alicent hightower #helaena targaryen

[snixx]

butch lesbian usnavi would've been too powerful for this world

#in the heights #she would've been so me coded actually #pinnacle of useless loser lesbianism and craving a sense of belonging you've fundamentally been alienated from since birth #fierce love for your homeland and roots despite how alientated you feel from them all the time #to the point that love starts to define you #yearning for a home for your cultural identity over your queer identity and arc about learning they don't have to be binary #extreme cringefail loserism #ugh someone please write this

[leregirenga]

Hoy es una de esas noches en las que sólo deseo una linda compañía... Quiero que una mano me sostenga y una palabra me aliente.

Tengo ganas de un beso en la frente y de una caricia sublime.

Necesito de alguien que me quiera amar bajo el manto de la noche y me murmulle al oído palabras tiernas.

¿Qué soy cursi? Probablemente así sea... Pero hoy es una de esas noches de insomnio en que mi alma necesita unirse a otra alma y quedar presos de esa poesía que podamos crear al amarnos.

Leregi Renga

#deseo #linda #compañia #mano #sostenga #palabra #aliente #amor #texto de amor

[i-am-cesear]

I wrote the first chapter instead of studying my exam. I hope I will not be doomed. Here.

Fandom: Alien Stage

Couple: Ivan/Till

Story Summary: Till was ready to die. There is no way he could win this. Except he did.

Or in this story, Ivan lives, and the lesbians save them. Like they should be in the first place. I am looking at you, Hyuna.

Chapter Summary: The final match was Till vs. Luka. Luka likes to play dirty, but before they find out who the winner is, some people crash the place. They kill many aliens, and Till sees someone from the past. Someone who he truly wanted to see again.

#ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #ao3fic #alien stage #alien stage round 6 #alien stage till #alient stage ivan #ivantill #ivan will live

[aliantic]

Summary: When Brian inherited his grandfather’s house, he expected to do a lot of work to fix it up. What he didn’t expect, though, is that his grandfather’s house was once a brothel, and the women who lived there are still around. When they start to show themselves, Brian must find some way to deal with these ghosts and their history with his house.

Rating: Explicit

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

#the blue room #writeblr #writers on tumblr #original work #ghosts #romance #mystery #.alientic

[curly-fried]

Its interesting how kids cartoons often follow friend groups that have a 50/50 boy girl ratio, while in real life kids are deeply encouraged by society to exclusively hang out with their own gender

#text #i think this keeps on being a thing into adulthood too #like because our society is so heteronormative a man and a woman hanging out is seen an inherently romantic thing #so outside of romantic and secual encounters women and men are discouraged from hanging out #bc theyre in fear of people or either of the parties misinterpreting the relationship #and because of that men and women are deeply alientated from eachother

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Alien AU

Double date to an observatory! But kakashi and Gai don’t tell Iruka and Yamato that they are on a date.

Kakashi and Gai coming up with the idea for a double date and just not telling the other people who are a part of the double date is so perfect.

they would do this and they would love it. Kakashi because he's a troll, Gai because he genuinly thinks it might help Yamato and Iruka connect

The problem is, Iruka is very much a pessimist in some ways so when someone brings up the idea of aliens he scuffs and says they can't be real and oh BOY does that start one heck of a conversation with Yamato. Not an argument, but a very heated discussion that needs to be taken to the observatory cafe so that they can continue it.

Kakashi and Gai end up staring up at the stars together while Yamato and Iruka are hunched over a table arguing about the possibilities of aliens existing, Iruka not even realizing that the cutie he likes is an alien and knows exactly what he's talking about XD

#Alient AU #Kakagai #YamaIru

[lastoneout]

praying the dem leads in AZ keep up because we're blue almost all across the board 🙏 finally might have a shot at a government that actually represents the people who live here

#fuck kari lake btw I dont want her in the same zpicode as the govenor's office #fingers crossed so hard for a blue govenor #airzona gets a lot of shit but Ive said it before and Ill say it again we're one of the bluest red states in the country #kari lake really shouldnt have been out there shit talking mccain tho as much as I hate that guy his name holds a lot of sway here #so many of his supporters are dems now and even more of em will go if you keep alientating them

[cosmics-beings]

i need miko and starscream to become friends though because she'd be like 'can i fly in you' and after begging and getting on starscream's nerves somehow he'd agree and like, starscream would be flying slow at first (for obvious reasons) but then somehow , miko would find a way to gain control of him for like five minutes. so one minute their in jasper and the next their like in california and starscream is about to put her out.

also when starscream is docked/sleeping in alt mode she somehow gets in him and he wakes up and he's floating in space and miko is like 'dude, don't turn into your robotic form because im in here, but i think we should try for the moon'.

ooh he'd wanna throw her out so bad.

#miko nakadai #starscream tfp #like those jets do actually go so fast they can be in different areas in like minutes #also his interior has to be super pressurized which isn't an issue because he is an alient aircraft #but omg miko purposely flying past miltary bases to start shit #it's like she just grabs the controls and then starscream puts a lock on them

[vamptoll]

"Sure, we all love Marx, but Alienation? What a bad term, right! We're replacing it, with the term bad work, as opposed to good work."

#grad school life #This feels like something I would say in class as a joke #They quite literally say “bad work” is a better term because it... #isn't existentialist? Yeah... Umm #that term means nothing and by definition can only apply to “bad” #bad work is always bad because bad is in the title... Alienation refers to something very specific! And doesn't actually include a moral! #Because you don't need that in your academic work! And it makes your work stupider! #You can't say non-alienated work is by definition good work #there's other factors beside worker alientation?