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Alienation

Alienation

A PALLID HOPELESSNESS: REFLECTIONS ON ALIENATION

By Gene Riddle
September 24, 2022

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness…. -Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scriven…

Alienation

The Work and Life of Women: The Dynamics of Individualism and Power

By William Bergquist
February 2, 2022

[Note: This essay builds on work that was published in Rosalind Sun and William Bergquist, The Word for World is Work. This …

Freedom

How to Turn Loneliness into a Multi-Trillion Dollar Business: A Perspective on China from the Writings of Erich Fromm

By Xiaoyun (Sharon) Ma
March 27, 2019

This essay specifically focuses on the writings of Erich Fromm from a social application perspective, using China’s Singles …

Disclosure / Feedback

The New Johari Window #4: Three Perspectives on Human Relationships

By William Bergquist
January 5, 2015

I specifically look at human interaction and the Johari Window from three perspectives—three ways in which to appreciate the…

Aggression

Aliens or Alienation: The Commoditized Creature that Walk among Us

By Gene Riddle
December 10, 2014

Alienation is inherently widespread in capitalist society. This occurs because capitalism necessarily renders not only prod…

Leadership

The Postmodern Condition: I. A World of Paradox, Contradiction and Change

By William Bergquist
January 4, 2014

What are the paradoxes, whip lashing contradictions and dizzying changes of which our world is made? …

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