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The isolation of the modern individual that the nation solves by supplying shared identity and community.
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alienation
The isolation of the modern individual that the nation solves by supplying shared identity and community.
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The lack of freedom produced by city life regulated by work hours, commuting, and uniform schedules.
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Lack of freedom under regulated, repetitive city life.
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Marx's account of capitalism separating humans from labor, self, nature, and humanity.
definition
Capital is monetized power, and its problem is that it exploits, alienates, and consolidates.
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The only result of capitalism, in Jiang’s model, is massive inequality, corruption, immorality, alienation, anger, and indifference.
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Over-bureaucratization produces quiet quitting and lying flat because workers feel alienated, powerless, overworked, and machine-like inside organizations.
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The nation is the most emotionally powerful solution because it fuses religion and politics while solving the modern individual's alienation through community.
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He defines alienation as powerlessness and lack of agency under changes too fast for people to control, and disenchantment as dehumanization into a machine-like existence.
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Jiang identifies anomie, alienation, and disenchantment as psychological problems produced by the city: rule confusion, regulated lack of freedom, and machine-like loss of agency.
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Jiang presents Marx's psychological appeal as the claim that human beings are happier when hardship gives them collective purpose than when prosperity leaves them isolated.
model
Marx's account of alienation says capitalism replaces creative social affirmation with exchange value, wage labor, specialization, environmental exploitation, and competition.
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"So, is this clear? All right? So, once you have a universally accepted currency, you have the basis for globalization and globalization happens naturally..."
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"...result of capitalism is one, massive inequality, corruption, immorality, okay? And alienation, anger, indifference. And this is the world we live in today. It..."
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"So in America, this is called quite quitting. In China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it..."
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"...still isolated from others. Okay it still creates a problem of alienation and the nation solves this problem. Right because the nation has to..."
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"...not sure if your values can confront the future okay also alienation alienation just means a sense of power layer of powerlessness lessness okay..."
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"...you both go to jail. So it's confusing for people, okay? Alienation means that you have absolutely no freedom in the city. You work..."
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"You wanna know where this food is made. The problem, though, of course, is this is all an abstraction. You have absolutely no idea..."
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"...you both go to jail. So it's confusing for people, okay? Alienation means that you have absolutely no freedom in the city. You work..."
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"...same regulated life. And you lack freedom, okay? And that causes alienation. The last idea is disenchantment, where you feel as though you are..."
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"...alienating. And here, Marx explains that there are four types of alienation. The first type of alienation is the alienation of labor. And what..."
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"Before, we were doing things in order to support our community, in order to please other people, in order to affirm our humanity. Now..."
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"...we're always replenishing. We're always protecting nature. The fourth type of alienation is the alienation from humanity. All right? So before, for most of..."
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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