Friday, October 28, 2005
From Russlit Prof, mumblings and unintelligble sounds edited out:
"...in Chekhov's view, a sure sign of dehumanization is the non disjunction between one's professional and private life- one can easily find such individuals in Chekhov's Russia as here today: just listen to them talk. It is as though their professional details are a sort of shell in which they retreat and hide from reality, insulated in an ideological pigeonhole where they don't really live, but merely exist in a multitude of cliches and thrive only in the material. And this insulation is the start of the rot into full blown automatization and mechanization and at the end human beings become merely animals, as you see in his many stories..."
I think the rot started two years ago and i'm in this advanced stage ever since:
i speak in a string of unintelligble phrases, have no personal life at all, and am a virtual machine at work. i don't get crushed or crushed upon anymore, and i studiously avoid eye contact.
is this my personal utopia? to ascend from a mere human to a bronzed cast iron academic god?
"...in Chekhov's view, a sure sign of dehumanization is the non disjunction between one's professional and private life- one can easily find such individuals in Chekhov's Russia as here today: just listen to them talk. It is as though their professional details are a sort of shell in which they retreat and hide from reality, insulated in an ideological pigeonhole where they don't really live, but merely exist in a multitude of cliches and thrive only in the material. And this insulation is the start of the rot into full blown automatization and mechanization and at the end human beings become merely animals, as you see in his many stories..."
I think the rot started two years ago and i'm in this advanced stage ever since:
i speak in a string of unintelligble phrases, have no personal life at all, and am a virtual machine at work. i don't get crushed or crushed upon anymore, and i studiously avoid eye contact.
is this my personal utopia? to ascend from a mere human to a bronzed cast iron academic god?
