> It sounds like an excellent movie -- but if you take it to another level
> of abstraction, it is as deeply imbued with capitalist ideology as a Fox
> newscast. Alienation, it reveals, is NOT a necessary and "objective"
> property of capitalist relations
Alienation from life is a necessary and "objective" feature of some lives in every time and place:
He who has lived and thought can never Look on mankind without disdain; He who has felt is haunted ever By days that will not come again; No more for him enchantment's semblance, On him the serpent of remembrance Feeds, and remorse corrodes his heart.
(From Pushkin's _Eugene Onegin_)