"This is one way I read that ubiquitous Marxist term, alienation. When we are forced to engage in work that requires forced subordination of our attention to a purpose that we have little or no intrinsic attraction to. This is a spiritually, developmentally violent act."
"In earlier centuries, the “world of the full human personality” was seen with fear. The chaotic, despotic, and dangerous interior life of human passion “appeared as a menace that needed to be exorcized to the greatest possible extent.”