Of things trivial and personal
I have noticed a growing trend in my latest posts; a tendency towards posting entries that lean toward being personal to some degree. If anyone should know how dangerous that is, it should be me. I had resolved not to turn the Box into a place where I narrate what goes on in my life and where I have an anonymous audience enjoying my story and thinking “Ah, but you should have done this instead of that”.
My resolution still stands, I think. I reflect on matters and post what I make of them in my Box, that makes it all personal, no? Yes. The truth of the matter still stands though, some things are more personal than other things.
Beyond the usual I-have-been-busy-lately cliché’s, much maturity was dug up and acquired by yours truly over the past weeks. Someone said during those strange times: “If you are lower class, the only way you can socially advance is by getting an education. But how far can you go with your education? You can reach lower middle class, maybe if you’re very lucky you’ll get to upper middle class, but you’ll never be upper class”, and I thought it was so sad.
Then during another discussion, a person said that communist China was true to its original principles and it still is. I asked if there were no exceptions in China but I didn’t hear the person’s answer.
I think of a revolution as a means by which the majority of people achieve something. The smart rich get richer when they channel the inferior classes’ anger and passion towards the revolution. The educated middle class and the idealists get to chase their ideas with more enthusiasm, and often fall to the belief that they have materialized. The poor get to vent at first then they retire to misery.
Perhaps my pessimism is taking shape these days. Perhaps it is affecting my views in politics and culture, making me regard things as trivial, unworthy, and fake. A very interesting transformation. I wonder, is it part of maturity?
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October 13th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course the solution is in the elimination of the class
society, where in its absence it will be possible for everybody to have dreams, and will have better chances of achieving them.<span style="" /></p>
October 13th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Think Niche’s Zarathustra, the man had to revolt against everything he stood for to be able to rise to higher level. However, sometimes this kind of revolution tends to become a form of self-destruction.<br /><br />I continue to enjoy reading your posts. Yours is one of the few blogs I keep track of, the blog of an enlightened fellow adiga.<br /><br /><br />
October 14th, 2006 at 11:16 am
How exactly do you eliminate the class division of society? I do not believe that is possible. <br /><br />Thank you Rami for the priceless compliment, it made my day.<br />
October 14th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Tololy, do you know anything about the founders of Google and YouTube?<br /><br />I could list thousands of people who came to the US as poor immigrants who are now wealthy - inlcuding my former Father-in-Law.<br /><br />There will always be "class structures" in any society, because some people will be more successful than others, some people will become criminals, some people have more talent than others, some perople have more drive than others, some people have more disadvantages than others, etc…<br /><br />BUT… the real question is, can people break through those boundaries through their own efforts? In some societies they can, and in others they cannot.<br /><br />
October 14th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Here is an idea:<br />"From Class Society to Communism" by Ernest Mandel.<br /><font size="2" face=" Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ink Links, London, c1977<br /></font>(Working on a " personalized" review. Expected posting date: first week of November).<br />
October 14th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Yes Craig, they have become wealthy but they have not become upper class. Perhaps through marriage a woman can enter upper class society but we have heard the terms "new money" (referring to the first example) and "gold digger" all too often. Do you think such a woman is fully accepted by those born into that class? In my opinion, that means she cannot announce she belongs to that class.<br /><br />I will be waiting for your personalized review of the book(?). Do remind me to drop by your blog to read it, please.<br />
October 15th, 2006 at 12:36 am
<span class="commentBody"><span id="comment-3764">Hi Tololy,<br /><br /><i>Yes Craig, they have become wealthy but they have not become upper class.</i><br /><br />What is "upper class," though? Breeding and lineage? I come from one of the original American families, but my family is no longer upper class. Upper middle class, maybe. Fortunes rise and fall. The last generation in my family that didn’t have to work for a living was my Grandparents. If I suddenly found myself coming into a lot of new money, am I upper class again, just because my family was at one time in the past? I can only speak of America because that’s all I know well, but there is enough "new money" in the US that they don’t even have to associate with "old money" families if they don’t wish to. They have enough social prominance in their own right to ignore the old order entirely. And most Americans don’t even much like people who were born into wealth and never had to earn anything on their own, anyway :)<br /><br />I do agree with you that "gold diggers" are frowned on here, as are "trophy wives" - (rich old guy marries a sexy young hottie who wouldn’t even give him the time of day if he wasn’t wealthy) - but I think most of the disapproval is reserved for the man and not the woman in these circumstances.<br /> </span></span>