Marx and Weil's Love Affair
by Claudia, Harry, Hoda and Raed (the prettiest one)
Weil introduces us to an oppressed social reality. Even through the notion of “revolutions”, society just ends up trading in one form of oppression for another. We grow up believing many scientific facts, but we do not or are unable to demystify their basis. As we are introduced in a work environment, we are trained and put in a mechanism. Weil discusses this process although rooted in good thought turned into exploitation of a destructive nature. Marx speaks of working as a collective because we are social beings, but the idea itself has many faults. Every individual strives for his or her goal. This goal is usually driven by the equation: work + happiness = liberty (freedom). However, happiness does not always mean liberty. The social being is introduced in his or her workspace, produces for the common interest of the space, thinks he or she has a certain power (a certain status) and believes he or she is free. This person works hard, produces much, and slowly becomes a cog in a large system. Even if this system was established for essential reasons as a response to a natural need or to environmental factors, this same system may find itself moving from a qualitative drive to a more quantifying nature. As it “progresses”, it hits a peak and slowly turns on itself or its “cogs”, and soon digresses and become of destructive nature. Focusing on the idea of responsive nature, we discussed the issues of emancipation and the idea or ideal of liberty and the artist in response to the latter subjects. Liberty is also established in the conscious realm and is not only a result of action or being. One does not need to oppress another to gain liberty because it is not material or an issue of power. A person needs to be involved in the community and be aware of his judgment and actions in relation to the group (a person chooses vs. falling into). However, if our responses are just a result to our environment, how can an artist truly be creative, without his/her actions being considered as naturally part of the system therefore stripped of all sense of freedom?
Weil introduces us to an oppressed social reality. Even through the notion of “revolutions”, society just ends up trading in one form of oppression for another. We grow up believing many scientific facts, but we do not or are unable to demystify their basis. As we are introduced in a work environment, we are trained and put in a mechanism. Weil discusses this process although rooted in good thought turned into exploitation of a destructive nature. Marx speaks of working as a collective because we are social beings, but the idea itself has many faults. Every individual strives for his or her goal. This goal is usually driven by the equation: work + happiness = liberty (freedom). However, happiness does not always mean liberty. The social being is introduced in his or her workspace, produces for the common interest of the space, thinks he or she has a certain power (a certain status) and believes he or she is free. This person works hard, produces much, and slowly becomes a cog in a large system. Even if this system was established for essential reasons as a response to a natural need or to environmental factors, this same system may find itself moving from a qualitative drive to a more quantifying nature. As it “progresses”, it hits a peak and slowly turns on itself or its “cogs”, and soon digresses and become of destructive nature. Focusing on the idea of responsive nature, we discussed the issues of emancipation and the idea or ideal of liberty and the artist in response to the latter subjects. Liberty is also established in the conscious realm and is not only a result of action or being. One does not need to oppress another to gain liberty because it is not material or an issue of power. A person needs to be involved in the community and be aware of his judgment and actions in relation to the group (a person chooses vs. falling into). However, if our responses are just a result to our environment, how can an artist truly be creative, without his/her actions being considered as naturally part of the system therefore stripped of all sense of freedom?
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