Lori-I don't know the people you are talking about. I know enough to know that there
are
good and bad apples on both sides. Don't trust anyone who thinks all the bad apples
are on
one side-they are immature and can't be trusted.
However, I would like to comment on the bs about your society and ours being one of
equal
opportunity - that anyone get get a good education and a good salary and live well.
That
is BULLSHIT. and a lie people tell themselves to assauge their guilt because they know
their blaming of the poor for being poor is wrong. Even if we got rid of the
bigotry(fat
chance as it is embedded in the religious beliefs of many) that prevents women, people
of
colour, homesexual mean and women, the disabled,we still would not be an equal
opportunites society. Why? Because people are not born with equal abilities. Some
people
are born with learning difficulties, some with lower iq's, some are disabled, some are
born into severely dysfunctional families. If these familes are aslo poor, the
offsrping
will not have access to the help they will need in order to function properly and in
most
cases will be left behind in the low paid jobs, if they can work at all.
The plain fact is that the poor NEED to exist in order for the well off to be well off!
You cannot have rich without poor.
The belief that our societies offer equal opportunites is dishonest and self serving.
If we did not have the people willing to do the jobs the well off consider beneath
them,
society would be up shit creek, literally. Who would take care of the sewers? The
rubbish
we amass? Who would lay and clean the roads and pavements(sidewalks), who would risk
their
lives building? All these jobs are VITAL for our existence as we know. Yet the job of
say
an advertisment person, is considered of more worth!!!!!!!! Teachers and nurses, are
also
absolutely vital to us yet they too are low paid.
I agree with you-society as we know will burn out and probably violently. The have nots
vastly outnumber the haves. Only a fool will ignore that little fact.
For society to work for everyone, we have to get our selves out of fantasy land and
work
in a way that favours everyone, the strong, the weak, the healthy, the ill, the able
and
not so able. Anything else is just bullshit. Most of what I have read and hear from
the
'pull your socks up' brigade is nothing more than a blame the victim stance, a
compassionless 'i'm alright jack' attitude from selfish, greedy, arrogant people who
instead fo pouring scorn and spite on those less well off thena they, should try a
little
gratitude for their good fortune and luck.
And that DOES apply to those who feel they earned it by working themselves thru school
into their good well apid careers. The should thank God that they had the abiltiy to do
it! But instead they puff themselves up into something they think we should admire and
spit on those with less luck and ability than they have.
Gratitude goes a long way to creating happiness and a compassionate understanding of
others. Do people really think they are well off because they are worth more? How
pathetic. How sad. What self deciet. What arrogance.
Well, Lori what started out as my note of agreement to your rant ended in one of my
own.!!!!
BTW, I was playing an association game the other day. America-Xtian, Guns, Death Row.
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bw
colin
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