ALIENATED LIFE??? NO WAYS OUT???

Now Listening:
Wolf Parade.

I was reading Ernesto´s Never Neutral Blog and I found this:

“I am profoundly concerned about the present and the future of this already-inhospitable city, this poverty and corruption-ridden country, about the role and (un)importance of literature, art, the humanities in general in this and other societies, about politics in general and specific, about the situation of the world, unfair wars, terrorism, gender violence, homophobia, resentment, unemployment, the lack of optimistic horizons for the young and the old, the rampant ecocides we witness everyday, the gradual decay of our physical and intellectual life. Everywhere I look I see angry, tired, depressed, disappointed, unsatisfied people. Many of my friends find themselves utterly poor, paying the price for having decided to do something they believe in. Others are enslaved in unproductive office hours, neutralizing their potential. They are tired and dedicate themselves to survive. They are afraid to go out or do what they want to do. We are becoming passive and neutral, alienated, numb, asleep”.

How can we escape form this alienation? That’s the big question. Are there really alternatives? Are they around us? Or we have to keep looking for them? Now I can’t really see the alternatives, some days the world looks really grey and some days I want to believe in Utopia. We have to believe, we need to be conscious that we make the history not the history makes us. The market has not an ontological status; we seem to be controlled by the market, it guides our lives and it decides the way that we should behave. As much you have is as much you value.

The thought by itself is been undervalued; we are leaving in the hiper-reality named by Baudrillard. The world is thinking us and we are not thinking the world. We have to escape from this world full of simulacrums and we have to dare to start thinking by ourselves (it sounds like Kant in his little essay “What is Illustration?”), do we need a kind of second Illustration? Or I am just divagating?