Thursday, January 21, 2010

Optimism over realism

Its no wonder to me how the aristocratic gentry of America can lay off people by the millions for the gluttony their pals committed on the stock market. Middle class America has made itself a pawns with the ambigious values known as the middle class myth. As long this a social class as a whole doesn't act to empower itself or preserve its power, it will lose its position.

The combination of Soccer Moms and 9-5 routines aimed at preserving a total farce: the simple stable life with the house and kids. The middle class myth IS a farce when you stop ignoring divorce rates or inconvenient statistics on childhood poverty. Or the fact that social mobility in this country is no different than the banana republics of South America. If people truly believed in what they say they believe in, like a stable house with a family, how is it America has such an abysmally high divorce rate among other things?

This is how:

-Americans are conditioned to think that everything within their orbit is within their control. People are naturally afraid of larger forces they can't control.

-Since taking care of hearth, home, and fun time takes precedence over being involved, its child's play to erode the middle class's social power. If they get angry, lay them off, then say it was their fault. Do that for several decades they will get mindnumbed into thinking it was all unavoidable.

-The triumph of optimism over realism. If you just will it, it will happen.

Combine it all and its no wonder that, flood of college degrees aside, the whole middle class did nothing to fight the incremental repeal of Glass-Steagall in the 1990s. Did nothing during the lay off craze beginning in the 1980s. Did nothing to fight lawyers attempting to fight Sarbannes Oxaley. Most of all, we can count people to NEVER stand up to business elites b/c to fight business elites means to be a communist.

People gripped with the middle class myth cannot and will not separate honest business from corruption in the top ranks, will swallow what the boss says b/c no one do anything that will jeopardize their house and family.

Think about it this way. If standing up for yourself ever meant being thrown into the streets, to be pooped on by employers, the truth is that one side has way too much power than the other. Today in America doing the right thing and standing up to employers means to be fired, and biting unemployment.

It should have never gotten that way people!

Everyone in the middle class thought that someone among their ranks would do the 'right' thing can campaign for a fair share for years. As long as they all thought that, no one bothered to act, b/c they all thought someone else would. Thus no one did anything.

Upward mobility is dead because people with high positions and power generally DON'T like new comers, and when they all view the middle class with disdain, its probably not surprise that they would start denying opportunities en masse to everyone else under them. It'll always be dead while people continue to play by rules that don't work.

But please don't take my word for it, that its hard to maintain anything in this world unless you first aren't willing to learn the world, here is an author that hits on much of these themes entire. Please visit this link!

http://www.amazon.com/Bright-sided-Relentless-Promotion-Positive-Undermined/dp/0805087494

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