Objective culture alienates the individual’s accomplishments into impersonal form.

Evidence

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9953

Categorization

• XREF: Direct echo of the Marxian alienation and fetishism theme familiar from the Frankfurt School reading, plus resonance with Raskolnikov’s feeling of being a negligible cog.