Alienation

Work, a four letter word that puts me on edge. It wasn't always like that. I didn't mind going to work, I mean four hours seemed to go by pretty fast. Now four hours is an eternity. I know I started to detest  work once I started to work Sunday mornings. Why, because I work as a cashier at Harris Tetter this means Sunday morning is the worst. Everyone comes to buy there weekly grocery and most of the customers are in the worst mood possible. I became irritated and I slowly started to care less for quality of my work. When there are ten to thirteen people in your lane and every single one has a cart that's overflowing. It doesn't really matter if the cans are baged by themselves or with the fruit. You just want to get the customer out as soon as possible. Being part of this system every Sunday morning becomes tedious. No one really cares that you take you time to double bag a customers order or that you place items alike together. Most of the time the customer will be on their phone and you have to wait there for several minutes till they realize they have to pay. Even when I work the self checkout it's the same. Either the customer will want you to bag their order and will fail to understand the concept of a self checkout, key word self. Or the process of scanning an iteam is foreign to them. Work itself is the one thing that will never fail to make me feel alienated.

Heraclitus and Parmenides

Instinctively I want to say that everything changes and nothing really stays the same. But to say that is taking a huge assumption because certain things will always remain the same. The fact that my brother is my brother will never change. Maybe how we feel towards each other will fluctuate but the fact that he is my brother will remain the same. Another thing that is held to be true is the order of things, in a story you always have the beginning, middle, and end. Maybe in a different order, but this makes up a story. This is the same for the course of life. We are born we live and we die. It is a continuous cycle. There are certain things that never change, that will be true till the end of time.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/easy.htm

This site helped me understand Hegel mainly because it separates different concepts into it's own idea. Then it explains those ideas in plain English. It starts by explain Hegel's process of thought when thinking about his Phenomenology and this helps because before getting into depth of his theories you have an idea of his logic. In the very end he also explains his absolute knowledge in terms that you can really understand by splitting it up into parts. It explains contradiction in three parts and this helps because instead of one large generic paragraph it's specific. The only thing with this site is that while reading it you have to be aware that the site is written in a Marxism point of view and this affect parts of the blog.