Foucault’s description of power disgraces the hellenised hierarchical archetype so long debated in western culture. Yet this insular model followed the democratic process. An inevitable consequence of republican policy. The rule of law as the measure of constitutionalisation. Yet there is an imbalance. A classist model either embraces the transitional aristocracy of the past regime or the individualised growth. Yet with such freedom, there will always be a weather class. With wealth comes power. Yet is that is inevitable? Is wealth the necessary barometer? Will such a system endeavour to exist?
The rule of law in democratic Greece altered the political landscape of sovereign immanence. The insular model sought to equalise the people but in the end created two different classes. For a society that only marginally emancipated certain people, it was only inevitable to have classes. Yet for the voter count there were still lower class individuals. There is a structure of the employer and the employee. One subsequently reaches farther than the other. The employer is always ahead given his resources. He provides the means. As long as the human order has a leader he will place his own priorities before others. He will be in charge and need others to follow. Positional relativity is inevitable. Someone needs to lead while others follow. A more dominant force and a more submissive force. This is not necessarily an ontological point about human neurology but about human construction. If an employer and employee is inevitable given a storeowner hiring waiters or a CEO hiring associates. Someone will be ahead and his successors cater to his wisdom.
The fault of a democracy is pinning its own citizens against one another. Prior to Greece it was the external sovereign over the land. The masses were placed on equal footing. Dive authorship had separated that gap. An acceptance of a place in the hierarchical order. As a piece of the empire there was not much of class politics. Lacking any political stance nor any say mitigated any discursive effect. Greece gave that thought to the people. You can fight and mention your woes. You do play a pivotal role in the system. You are important. Whether or not the upper class respected the lower class, the democratic ideology did. Her recognition of both peoples as citizens is verification. The ideal serenity was muddled by corrupt upper class nobles. They manipulated the law and even around the law to get their way. Justice is not always provided despite the social contract. Judicial discretion and the active complexities do not ease the indictment. Atticus Finch’s sparkling defence falls on deaf ears to the racists. The rule of law is upheld but not adequately. A sharp division between the classes is more than a practical difference. The separation is hierarchically deficient in admitting special access. Money talks.
The internal matrix dehumanises its own citizenry. Unintentional but necessary beef. It is ultimately a battle of wits. Fending for themselves they have to look out for themselves. A self interested outlook. The democratic decision emerges from an ethical attitude that attempts to meet both regards. There are more successful citizens than others. Some more prestigious families than others. Certain privileges afforded to some more than others. This superiority complex shows its fangs in blaming the poor for failures. It is their fault. They are dragging society down. They are not pulling their own weight. The polemical attitude is generally not concerned with violent protest. Though the other side perceives the wealthy as greedy jerks. Selfish maniacal egomaniacs unwilling to share their profit with the masses. In it for themselves. Protest and public demonstrations are a constant remedy not necessarily the violent type. Yet poverty does push people to do some dangerous things for their health. A desperate sect will act superficially for their sake.
The classes are determined by economic stability. While the market enables free oscillation between classes, it is not as simple as that. Freedom is provided but it’s not absolute. Governmental programs cause certain professions to be limited in their social coverage. Noble jobs like a teacher or police officer do not make the same amount as a lawyer does. Yet many European doctors make little money as well. The incentive is not high but passion prevails. Higher salaries are afforded to the demanded professions of the era. Currently, computer science is the most sought after skill. It is a very complex and sophisticated skill, not one easily learned. Since the market changes, jobs that today are important, tomorrow may not be. Some are safe bets. Traditional roles will persist until robots take them over. When that happens therapists may be the sole surviving profession as the most human element. Still, the freedom to choose a profession though may hinge on certain qualities that may be unfit for one profession but not another. So not a good computer scientist but a good lawyer. The multifold variety provides that limitless opportunism. Exceeding the foundational regulation of parental restriction. As my father always said, once it is your house you may do as you please.
The fantasy opportunism is genuine to an extent. While these options exist, one must qualify. A land of opportunity does not necessitate equal opportunity from the get-go. Nature has a profound impact on societal capability but born in the wrong place wrong time, can all be for nought. The inability to demonstrate one’s skill is truly tragic. Inaccessibility is a misfortune but not one that can easily be corrected. While biases exist, this is more of a trans-generational travesty. Growing up in hillbilly Kentucky or slums of Detroit nurture unfortunate upbringings. Poor neighbourhoods do empower individuals to survive but also exposes them to real dangers. Gangs and mafia types recruit for deprecating agents. Putting themselves in dim conditions to aid their families. Many are lost and alone. Seeing this as the only option. There is no leaving the neighbourhood. Join the crime or bend the knee. Habituation only furthers a hazardous lifestyle. Fear and solitude aids the crime groups to prey on these suffering individuals. Life isn’t easy and their saviours provide them a way out. If the system promised to give them opportunity and cannot deliver then someone else maybe can.
The surroundings are impressively influential on the young’s life. Raised in a troubling area needs proper economic stability to maintain positive rhetoric around. Finances and role models to steer developing minds on the right track. Without any change, the instability will persist causing a crisis in the community. An area riddled with crime is broken, poor and disheveled. Further towards the abyss the less light shining on the young future. Without hope an entire group is shacked from the future. They continue blindly in the dark toward nothingness. In this inverse version of the cave analogy the crime lord is the saviour. He is the wilful provider against the wealthy sinister agents. An elitist regime against the people. Yet ethically, this is all an illusion. There is no philosopher, it a fictional vision to make ends meet. For providence people will do what is necessary to survive. To escape the perils of poverty, they engage in illegal activity for their promising gain and liberation. Escaping poverty is a goal manageable but once stooped in, it’s a dire lifestyle. Like any other profession it is a job to do and to help the family. The group becomes a beacon of familial love, one not showed by the government nor the police.
The impoverished are cut off from the main supply of access. The greatest privilege is not any race or religion. While that may give one an edge for familiarity, it is not the main indicator. Connections are so important. A friend once joked that Jews have Jewish privilege. Jews look out for one another so at a job interview one may get the edge because his father prays at the same synagogue. Reality is, relationships will take you so far. Finding professions by communication is dually credible. There is a tribalist lacing that is an inevitable bias. People like those who are like them. It does not mean they will not hire others but they may give primacy to their members. it is not negative discrimination but positive camaraderie. Connections are only valuable if that connection is advanced. A bunch of poor friends is not necessarily an efficient way of making a buck. Friends in high places is justly relevant. Due to the Jewish communal experience, the poor Jew though embarrassed can approach the rich Jew after services and ask for a favour. The connection of a memorial past and religious traditions may be sufficient. A privilege not many others are afforded.
The poor out in generationally struggling communities are limited to their communities. Their probable escape is low and keeps descending infinitely. They do not have the access nor the prestige that rich counterparts have. Gladwell analogises the disproportionate quantity of elite hockey players born in early months to the generational success of the wealthy. It correlates to environment and opportunities. While for the hockey players they were larger and thus seen as more dependable, for the rich their wealth gave them tutors to aid in pursuing futures. The innate ability is heightened by the socio-economic fortune. If access is provided the talent is given the necessary advantage. His example of Oppenheimer demonstrates how connections can aid in voiding a poison charge. Oppenheimer’s brilliance could have been crumbled had his familial links not panned out. Even more so for a prodigy from the projects. The wrong environment can corrupt great potential. The Manhattan project was full of ex-German Jews who built the atom bomb and defeated Hitler in the gravest of ironies. Not everyone gets a chance nor is it available to the degree that we would like.
The solution to this dichotomy is not simple. Yet there is an intuitive and pragmatic rationale for aiding the poor. The intuitive answer is an ethical one born of human empathy. Doctors serve all patients as a duty of theirs to humanity. People should could care about others in the spirit of their shared heritage. Empathy is natural but it is only one of the reasons to help. The second reason arises from consequentialism. Beyond the deterministic factor that divides society. People born into tough socio-economic surroundings have a lower probability of success. Not impossible but improbable. Poorer areas have higher crime. While, wealthy individuals can move to their own communities, even gated communities, there is no escaping developing crime. Its gruelling insolence cannot deter ignorance. The gated communities cannot survive forever. Poverty hurts society. It spreads crime and disease. As a group, society will prevail over the individual. The rich need the poor. The rich need the poor to operate. A wealthy businessman owns a factory and he hires poor employees to work in the factory. They need one another. It makes the most sense to provide necessary health to ensure productivity. Especially in a labour shortage it is that much more important.
The eradication of poverty is the goal of every society. Even in such a system The present climate is ideological over economic. Tribalistic disassociation bars mutuality and any futuristic employment. Embodying the liberties and the disparities gravitates towards the betterment. Classes are economic but it has transformed into an ideological front. It is not solely a money issue but a systemic suppression of the poor. It is a neo-medievalism whereby an aristocracy commands political influence over the masses. There are opportunities for growth but the poor are placed in a bad position. A socio-economic issue does not necessitate a cabal-like sovereign dominating the poor. The reality of deterministic output is unaligned with radical displacement. The poor are not hunted but ignored. The classist model is superficially diagnosed as discounting poverty. Poverty has always been an issue but lives have been improved, still there is more that can be done. Ideological motivation only compels a tyrannical presentation. The reality though bleak is misconstrued. Contextualised in the debunked meta-narrative finds disproportionate isolation by virtue of sociological iteration.
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