Affliction: A Short Story

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Meet 82310: under ordinary circumstances, in an ordinary day, in their ordinary life.
    
    Based on the philosophical principles of Karl Marx and his theory of alienation. This philosophical concept describes the disconnection between a person and their sense of self, due to the command of higher individuals. In other words, a person's loss of self-humanity is a consequence of being a mechanistic part of a social class. Based off the capitalist mode of production (cogs in a money-making machine), a key part of this theory is that people remain self-realizing and seemingly independent, but are actually unable to control the direction of their lives and futures, and are not ultimate directors of their actions.All Rights Reserved

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Affliction: A Short Story
Wed, Mar 27, 2019

Meet 82310: under ordinary circumstances, in an ordinary day, in their ordinary life.
    
    Based on the philosophical principles of Karl Marx and his theory of alienation. This philosophical concept describes the disconnection between a person and their sense of self, due to the command of higher individuals. In other words, a person's loss of self-humanity is a consequence of being a mechanistic part of a social class. Based off the capitalist mode of production (cogs in a money-making machine), a key part of this theory is that people remain self-realizing and seemingly independent, but are actually unable to control the direction of their lives and futures, and are not ultimate directors of their actions.

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