The Obliteration of Alienation

According to Leyton, the Industrial Revolution and the more recent technological revolution intensified the sense f alienation among many workers from different classes in society. Elliot Leyton states that the Industrial Revolution was positive in that it liberated people and freed them from "unthinkable slaveries of caste, race, gender, and class. On the other hand, however, they were alienated from "the product of their work, their fellow men who had become competitors in the market, and from their own selves".
MSF is an organization that stands for Medecins sans Frontiers, which literally means doctors without borders. It is an international groupof physicians who dedicated their lives to helping victims of genocide, war, disasters, and epidemics, often occuring in Third World countries. The alienation motivates MSF doctors because they can relate to the alientated persons. They too felt like non-persons when trapped in their dull, previous lives. Membership into the MSF program actually disalienates individuals. It liberates them as human beings, allows them to explore fully their potential as they seize the opportunity to act. They also construct their identities by witnessing atrocity and fear, treating vile diseases, healing terrible wounds, digging the latrine, and delivering clean water.
It is important that they do not consider themselves heroes, even though they very well may be. Since they do not brag about what they do, it is easier for people to be more appreciative of them.