What if the workers are completely alienated from labor? It’s the problem of quarantine, a nominal program at the heart of Apple TV+ Hit, where the fictional company Lumon’s employees differ from the non-working self, meaningless labor labour in a basement-level prison. If the central metaphor of Season 1 is that you can’t really separate yourself from your work, even with a forked brain, Season 2’s tackle is in the knowledge becoming inevitable. The alienation from the self must be resolved and overcome.
The process of severance is to solve the employee’s solution: to achieve work-life balance by not remembering your workday – literally, your work in the door (or elevator, depending on the situation). But, like every technological advancement that has dropped from the company, this innovation has not helped their boss a lot. Without historical and external world environments to learn from, cutting off employees in large seat improvement departments is more likely to be manipulated and abused, and they don’t understand how meaningful their work is. Although this work may indeed be Important and mysteriousthey are just sorting out the terrible numbers, completely unaware of their labor points. After this dissatisfaction, they went home, which was aggravated by the dismissal and would not decrease.
With season two expanding, spending more time with outgoing times, more comprehensive photos emerged of how their severance pay should affect them in leisure time. Dylan (Zach Cherry) in particular is a shocking case study: despite his wife and three good kids, he has been displeased with his lot for a long time. For Irving B. (John Turturro), his Outie’s activities remain the most opaque, but he seems to spend most of his time in the same ominous scenes in the exit hall, trying to retake back what he thought he was staying in the office Things underneath. Meanwhile, Helly R. (Britt Lower) seems to have a more fulfilling life than her Outie. Helena Eagan temporarily takes his life and steals the joy of Haley R. Mark S. (Adam Scott) relationship. She may be an Eagan, the heir to the company, but the obscene corporate class still suffers from alienation – alienation from human nature.
Mark tried to forget about his dead wife Gemma’s work during the weekdays, but this did not seem to translate into something that would be good for him. He drank alone, had a bad date, and for a while, his kind-hearted sister dragged him to his annoying dinner party where there was nothing to eat.
But the reason why Mark was severing – Gemma was also the reason why he tried to unravel himself. Previously, Outie Mark had previously refused to engage with his Innie’s plight and is now in a “re-fusion” with Mark S. and Mark Meld, so he can remember his experience in Lumon and save Gemma, who was Sleeped in Ms. Casey (Ms. Casey) (Dichen Lachman). Reintegration becomes a metaphor: work can finally solve other people, which is actually unbearable. The more conditions there are, the greater the liberation you will overcome.
Reintegrate / You are
“The rebellion is a miracle of irrationality, facing injustice and incomprehensible situations,” Albert Camus wrote. Mark S. But Outie Mark The slow tilt for refusion gave him some Innie’s enthusiasm, as if the two self-reinforced each other’s chutzpah. Through interacting with his work and life, Outie Mark became more active.
Mark was hungry all the time during the through line that began the pilot’s mealless dinner scene. His refrigerator is mostly empty, except for beer that looks like chicken soup and beer and small cans in small jars of bottles that teach consumers to understand food as food that is rushing to consume merely in pursuit of a more optimized life. Mark seems to have internalized it – until he is in pain of reintegration, the chicken soup Soylent will create grimacing and a local Chinese restaurant where he has another plate of real food scarf. The process of being his entire self is exhausting and requires a living, but this feeling of hunger (this pleasant food) represents something bigger.
Mark is becoming more and more optimized – less willing to understand himself as a product of efficiency. The power of late capitalism will make us all exorcisively a hustle and bustle culture of endless and uninterrupted works, but food is a human pleasure that forces us to treat ourselves like the flesh, and dining requires spending on an opportunity Time may come – in the case of Mark, a dubious run-in with Helena Eagan, it could push for a faster but stricter re-fusion version.
Mark feeds himself with hunger, thus showing that he is less willing to distort himself, less willing to sacrifice his life for a productive plan to teach us to always understand ourselves as workers.
Alienation / We are we are
Mark’s wife Gemma is reluctant to participate in this nourishing event. When he missed her particularly seriously, Mark opened her craft box and hid it in the basement. We see clumsy candles in Christmas red and green. Mark explained that the production “give her time to think.”
This is the opposite of alienation. Karl Marx called it Life or Speciesbut today, his German translation is mostly distilled to the “essence”: the idea of each person as part of human writing, and the prosperity period outside of our lives and self, alone and collectively.
Work will get something intrinsic and literal from you, making you less. You can supplement this loss by a pleasant pursuit: for Marx, This means Eat, drink, buy books, go to the theater or bar, think, love, theorize, sing, paint… and the less you do, the greater your capital. In other words, the essence of life comes from pleasure and socialization, and alienation from our human nature comes from not only work, but also from understanding that one is a worker.
Because work cannot be divided and blocked. If we are separated from our own work, we are separated from ourselves. The road we must walk together. The important moment for Macrodata to improve the department is the collective action that was born from the individual path of radicalization in the workplace. You are you). Conquest begins with work, but so is radicalization. Just like me Written beforeThis is many workers engaged in collective action learning. We won’t do radical work. We’re becoming radical at workeven the minimal taste of collective action provides a sense of power in our power.
Like reintegration, this power fits into life outside of our work, which makes us reluctant to take bad situations from others who are similarly trying to exploit us. This helps explain why the richest and most powerful people struggle Trade unionization effort so Difficult: Compliance at work not only makes workers receive the boss’ thumbs; it will extract labor capitalism as the status quo. The workplace is at the heart of alienation because it is where we learn to be subject-understand ourselves as a literal subject. When we accept the incredible whimsicality of the C-suite and our livelihoods exist, we are more likely to understand ourselves as passive in other unequal dynamics, whether it is the landlord who raises rent, just because they can or in public education The divestment of public education leads to life in accordance with insurmountable student loan debt. And, when workers call nonsense under working conditions, they soon afterwards challenge the nature of the work itself and the way its spirit spreads its tendrils to every aspect of life.
You don’t have to do science fiction shows like this lay off To understand that the workplace is the central location for all people who are harsh and mentally concealed in life – you just have to go to work. The opposite is true. Engage in the simple pursuit of giving the texture of life – eating real food, engaging in non-production hobbies such as handmade, social contact With your loved ones – replenish the soul and act as a balance of alienation from the workplace. In our real world, it is almost as difficult to fully realize the self as it is in the grim world of Lumont Industry, even if it is not so revolutionary to go to town on a bowl of wonton soup. Here and there, reintegrating into the entire self brings a powerful sense of self-determination, joy and power. The taste makes us crave more.
