Alienation

First, what is alienation? According to Marx, it is the separation of things that are naturally

belong together. It is an issue of relativity. We see things based on our own perspective, with our

own way. If we see something different, weird and unfamiliar, we assume it as alienating entity.

Alienating entity are what we seen as abnormal and different. Alienation can occur in everything.

It manifest itself physically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally, culturally, socially etc. that

characteristics is what we called alienating traits.

Alienation may also manifest itself as beneficial or undesirable. Beneficial traits, from the

word itself are those alienating traits, which have no harmful impacts to those it alienates from and

to its fellow alienating entities. A notable example for this would be seedless watermelons. Normal

watermelons are artificially experimented to be seedless. This alienation is beneficial to the

consumers who do not like the inconvenience of ingesting seeds while consuming the juicy flesh

of the watermelon. On the other hand, there are also undesirable traits. These traits may come

harmful. It is viewed as unacceptable by the norms. An example of these traits can be found with

children. Bullies are those people whose own behavior alienates from other children. They exhibit

a trait that do not fit in with the others.

Karl Marx used workers and production for us to understand the concept. Alienation is

something that people make things that is not belong to them. Marx try to explain the alienation

that separate the workers from the work itself. He also defines it the way people work with other

people whether we like it or not. He also defines it the way we isolate ourselves from other species.

That with our work, it became a habit. That one day we would feel that we are like a robot, which

is lifeless. He defined it the way that we have loss our control. He was explaining it as if you have

to accept what is your purpose in this world.

 Let us put it in simpler example, human who has feeling of not belonging or isolation but

suddenly put into a situation of having a social life, which is new to him. It will not be easy for

that person to adjust but it is not impossible for him to embrace change. That time comes that he

will feel the sense of familiarity. It may be against that, persons will to adjust at first but it is not

wrong all along.

Alienation as mentioned that it is isolating oneself from others. Let us take our opinions on

the other point of view. That you were the one considered in alienation. What would be your

feelings or point of view in the world where you feel you are different from everyone? It would be

beneficial to be unique. Would you embrace change to be one of them? Or stay as an alien entity

to them? How would you react with the feeling of not belonging to the world? Todays society

demands to have conformity to something that is usual, typical and required with the standard.

Any individual who refuses will be isolated.

Alienism is like isolating some things just because we feel that is not connected with the

values, norms and culture of our community. It is common to all of us that we close our mind when

seeing something that is not familiar with us. It pushes our consciousness to certain things.

Moreover, to the examples mentioned above. There is change. Change is inevitable which means

we cannot avoid it. Alienation can leads us to new invention or discovery but it can also leads us

to possible disappointments.

As conclusion to all things that are mentioned, alienation have something to do with

adjustments, with change. There are things that are customary to us like eating, drinking, sleeping.

These things are eventually same with all the living things in this world (humans and animals).

Alienation provides a detailed explanation that shows the result when people are included in the
situations which supposed to be they were not part of. It explains how will it be, how will it

communicate with each other.

Marx viewed alienation is like what society viewed world as of today. That people will be

contented if they are doing what others do. To have education, to have contact with other people.

He made us believe that a person must be independent with what they possess. I guess the concept

have no basis of scientific but it will still be believe and continue to exist while it is part of the

study of humans and still continue to share to other generations.