Truth & Alienation In a Covid World

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Truth & Alienation In a Covid World

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Alex Duell explores how the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent shift to life online has contributed to human alienation from nature.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/143/Truth_and_Alienation_In_a_Covid_World
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Re: Truth & Alienation In a Covid World

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“ Perception is everything when it comes to our knowledge of the world. A world perceived online is one which can only serve to make people less human. The sooner we can sit together in a room and discuss this, the sooner we can be happy philosophers once again.”

Well, does commuting to an office landscape hours away, or spending endless school days with a majority of classmates not interested in learning anything, raising hell, make the world a more human, or as stated in the article a more natural world?

Sure, there are maybe a few hundred of philosophy students in ivy leaguish universitys who can go back to their Secret Story wunderlands. But for the guys who live a more normal middle class life? Sure, there are an abundance of problems connected to Lockdowns, but the daily work for daytime workers... what will be more natural afterwards?
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