Tomorrow’s workers will have to be even more productive than today’s simply for us to hold our own. We won’t be able to do that if 15-20% of our future labor force is undereducated and socially alienated.
Alienation Quotes
I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself.
To live is to feel oneself lost.
I have been a stranger in a strange land. (Exodus 2:22)
There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Alienation without must be accompanied by alienation within; that is the law for every social level, even individuals. To harm one’s fellows, even one’s enemies, harms you, takes away some essential element from your self-respect and self-image.
Listen again. One Evening at the Close Of Ramazan, ere the better Moon arose, In that old Potter’s Shop I stood alone With the clay Population round in Rows. And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried – “Who is the Potter, pray, […]
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead . In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that […]
