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
Truth & Alienation In a Covid World
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Re: Truth & Alienation In a Covid World
“ 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?
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?