WELL our technology, our new style of living (upgraded version of it) has definetely shifted our perspectives on social life, community, self-others interaction, relationships and anything in between… We definetely care less about another human being, not to mention that we give less credit to that human being from the moment we pass him/her by in the street.

Our standards of living are way beyond what we had imagined some decades ago and the higher we get, the better we are at living on our own. Some time ago, as a teenager, it was more than awesome to live on your own and I did it for a few years until it struck me that this state of being seems to continue too much into our lives. Less frequently do people come together to form a solid unit, whether family or couple, more likely they just hang around and spend their lives with each other, still attached to the idea that they can at any time give up and come back to that secure life style when they were on their own (of course, some things would have changed like their age, their wealth, health condition, life expectations and desiers). The hunting behavior, thank god, has not changed… at least we are predictable to THAT extent. On the other hand, we are unpredictable, flexible in awkard ways (and therefore we become unreliable and we get used to it)…

Perhaps some will not agree in many ways with the above sentences but I am sure of only one thing: only now, after 24 years of life spent in various directions to know, accept and develop my own identity, only now I understand Cohen’s position on the alienated self in a transitional society.