tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post6798813687559376679..comments2024-02-20T14:00:41.771-05:00Comments on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Writing and AlienationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-30911699919384938302012-09-24T22:35:15.959-04:002012-09-24T22:35:15.959-04:00Hi Mrinalini...glad you like the post! Yes, I thin...Hi Mrinalini...glad you like the post! Yes, I think it makes sense to see procrastination as a kind of resistance to the compulsion and lack control that produces alienation, a kind of "Fine, then, you won't let me write what I want, I won't let you write at all" from some part of ourselves. And it certainly could be a stage in thinking about our relationship to our alienation..Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-34840747305744679922012-09-24T16:42:10.377-04:002012-09-24T16:42:10.377-04:00As you do so often in your writing I found this to...As you do so often in your writing I found this to be a really helpful analysis of everyday practice. I wonder if you think, as I have suggested on my blog, that procrastination is a form of acting out that alienation. It has seemed to me in my own progress as a writer that procrastination has set in as my writing work has become professionalized (which is another way of talking about alienation,Mrinalininoreply@blogger.com