Yes, even to mere survival,
For whatever else is wrong --
Man has a sound will to live,
A strange supernatural vitality.
He has led a life of the instinct;
He has adjusted him to economic,
Political, and social environments
That might have spelled disaster
To a less robust constitution.
He has also lived thru hard times,
Thru recurrent centuries of war
And plague and natural calamities
And human misrule. With a sense
Of grim humour and somewhat
Coarse nerves he weathered all,
And somehow he has always
Righted himself to wrong again.
A detailed study of the origins of the New Alienation. The author labels it normative or postmodern ennui and traces its rise to cultural power over the last two centuries.
Black white (well sort of pinkish) etcetera, Christian Muslim etcetera, Hetero-Homo-Metro Sexual, Physical, Mental, Ow! Includes all human rights violations I could think of.
Love ya!
Jane