Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies

Evidence

Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon’s distinctive redefinition of middle-class society as a closed, rigidified system, not an economic class.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821
• XREF: connects to: Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation; Intellectual alienation is a creation of a rigidified, closed middle-class society.; Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 818 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual alienation is a creation of a rigidified, closed middle-class society. #corroborates (0.98)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 818