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Sociologists call it alienation, or anomie. It is the sense of being cut off, or left out of whatever society one was presumably meant to be a part of. In a strongly motivated society the victims of anomie are usually extreme cases, isolated from each other by differing viewpoints or personal quirks too private for any broad explanation. But in a society with no central motivation, so far adrift and puzzled with itself . . . a sense of alienation is likely to be popular— especially among people young enough to shrug off the guilt theyre supposed to feel for deviating from a goal or purpose they never understood in the first place. Let the old people wallow in the shame of having failed. The laws they made to preserve a myth are no longer pertinent; the so-called American Way begins to seem like a dike made of cheap cement, with many more leaks than the law has fingers to plug. —Hunter S. Thompson
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:43:38 +0000

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