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Individual Alienation

The estrangement from oneself: a core concept in Marxist and existentialist thought. Individual alienation is the feeling that you are not the author of your own life—that your desires, beliefs, and actions are shaped by forces outside your control (capitalism, media, family, state). You perform roles you did not choose, you want what you are told to want, you work at jobs that leave you hollow. The “real you” feels buried under expectations, schedules, and obligations. Individual alienation is the quiet crisis of not knowing who you are when the masks are removed.
Example: “She looked in the mirror and saw a stranger wearing her face—individual alienation, the self as a product rather than a source.”
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Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
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