This is a truly excellent analysis packed with valuable compelling insights, including the theme of creativity.

There's yet another remedy for alienation, a synthesis of science, phenomenology, existentialism and the Eastern spirit expressed in Taoism. It allows for a non-dualistic union of the "objective" and "subjective."

It starts with Being, which observes Nature. Empirical investigation indicates consciousness is part of Nature.

The "alienation" is simply that Nature, broadly speaking, is nothing but conflict. Nature programs us to want and fight for survival. We fear death because we are programmed to.

There is nothing inherently negative about this situation or state of affairs. It's just the Way, the Tao.

Whenever we think of our situation in negative terms -- beyond our emotional programming -- we are doing so because of the programming of religion.

Judeo-Christian teaching portrays all the above in terms of good and evil -- God loves us, and Satan hates us. Some of us simply cannot expunge this cultural conditioning. Its secular translation is "our aspirations are divine, and monstrous Nature crushes them."

Letting go of these connotations frees us from culturally imposed alienation. We then see whatever alienation, if any, that remains is biological.

Our conscious human condition allows us to choose to think however we like about our situation -- negatively, neutrally or positively -- at any given moment.

That's the available remedy.