This is done through the experience of not feeling like you belong to the world. Arendt says this is one of the most radical and desperate experiences of man. To me, as I read this I thought of two examples right away. The first is the idea of a factory worker or an assembly line. Doing a mundane, repetitive job over and over, and never actually feeling like you have an effect of the way the product turns out; I can easily see how that would make someone feel like they are very disconnected from the world in which they live. We discussed, via Marx, that in many cases, you may work on the assembly line to create something in which you can never feasibly own. For instance, a Jaguar automobile assembly line is a good example of this. Most of these employees will undoubtedly never own a Jaguar based on the money they are making at the assembly line which is creating
This is done through the experience of not feeling like you belong to the world. Arendt says this is one of the most radical and desperate experiences of man. To me, as I read this I thought of two examples right away. The first is the idea of a factory worker or an assembly line. Doing a mundane, repetitive job over and over, and never actually feeling like you have an effect of the way the product turns out; I can easily see how that would make someone feel like they are very disconnected from the world in which they live. We discussed, via Marx, that in many cases, you may work on the assembly line to create something in which you can never feasibly own. For instance, a Jaguar automobile assembly line is a good example of this. Most of these employees will undoubtedly never own a Jaguar based on the money they are making at the assembly line which is creating