PHENIX CITYâA public television documentary tells about the transformation of an Alabama city so wicked that Gen. George S. Patton threatened to roll his tanks across the river from Ft. Benning and destroy it.
The term alienation which refers to a person's separation from the body was first used in ancient Greece (Temel, et al. Cynicism as a mediator of relations between job stress and work alienation: a study from a developing country--Turkey.
The term alienation has been used over the ages with varied and sometimes contradictory meanings. In ancient history it could mean a metaphysical sense of achieving a higher state of contemplation, ecstasy or unionâbecoming alienated from a limited existence in the world, in a positive sense.