Alienation and Freedom

One insidious mode of Alienation is that which is conceived as 'freedom'.  This occurs in the context of an Individual-State antithesis, in which hostility by the former against the latter is actively expressed, for example, in violence directed towards "The Government".  However, that apparent 'liberty' is only superficial, and, instead, only reinforces the Alienation that is the ground of the conflict.  In contrast, effective liberation in such circumstances requires the elimination of the Alienation, which, in the common case in which the State is firmly entrenched, is expressed by detachment from the status quo as much as is possible.