See, I basically think that people have been thinking basically the same sort of shit ever since we could think, talk etc. I think alienation is part of the fabric of human existence, and it's easy to think in modern life that computers, tv, drugs, etc etc do it, when really it's just something that's been following us around ever since we figured out how to escape from brute nature (and I find the word nature problematic too, but you know what I mean). When I read authors of various centuries I find that peoples reactions to things are startlingly similar, there's an overemphasis onhistory and ascribing some 'lost' sense of comfort in your own world to another age.
Human life is, toiling in the field, working in an office, spending days chasing some animal, or whatever. That's what simultaneously seperates us from the animals and makes us feel alien in the world...
Ahh. rambling shite. Got to love it.