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Jiang's term for the dehumanizing effect of modern change, where people become like clocks or machines.
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disenchantment
Jiang's term for the dehumanizing effect of modern change, where people become like clocks or machines.
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The feeling of becoming machine-like and losing human agency.
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Feeling like a machine and losing human agency under modern conditions.
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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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"And it creates psychological issues. Okay? Primarily the idea of enemy. Enemy just means a loss of sense of cultural rootedness. Right? As things..."
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"...lack freedom, okay? And that causes alienation. The last idea is disenchantment, where you feel as though you are just a machine, and you..."
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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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"...lack freedom, okay? And that causes alienation. The last idea is disenchantment, where you feel as though you are just a machine and you..."
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