Creative Alienation (Sign)

Creative Alienation Today humankind desperately needs people who are creatively alienated. To be satisfied in our situation is either to have bad values or to understand grossly what people can do. Simply to be opposed to the system leads to quixotic protests that work to entrench the established wrong and promote despair and passivity. Creative alienation implies sufficient withdrawal from our society to judge it critically, but also the way and flexibility to keep finding and trying ways of correcting it. I think Jewishness offers a unique means of gaining and maintaining such creative alienation. Thiswas not the primary role in the lives of our parents and grandparents. from 'Eugene'Borowitz 'in %asks 1ews Wear via ~6 :J{ananSiffs