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Alienation

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to. – Bob Dylan

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. – R. D. Laing

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. – R. D. Laing

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. – Eugenio Montale