Breaking Our Own Society Apart

Living in a wetico infested culture and being brought up in our day in age is sickening because we teach our young from a young age that you must have money and power and be rich in the future in order to be successful in life, which is not true. In my opinion in order to be successful you must do what you love one life and be happy and live life to the fullest. Our own wars and personal suffering comes from our own wants instead of our needs and this is grown and festered within us from the time were born for wanting more and more and more and beeing greedy once people understand and know this it will be a relief and a blessing for them for they will live a better life. The next problem that people must know about is that in our human nature competition is not natural and in reality we are programmed to love one and other. Since our birth we are told that we must be the best the alpha the leader of the pack but all this is a lie because it will not give you true bliss and happiness. The mirror neurone in other animals is now found within us as when we are around people who are happy and loving it will make us happy and loving as well that is true human nature, that also goes for the opposite when you are around angry people you become stupid and blind. In the end people need to truly see and learn about these things so we can make the world clear and better and help them live better

Within the past few years, the United States has become increasingly divided. Not only is this divide becoming more and more prevalent, but both legislators and civilians are also becoming more intractable. Many leaders in the Congress, in the Senate, and even in the White House are unwilling to work with leaders of different political parties simply because they do not want to seem as if they are faltering in their beliefs of their party’s ideals. Legislators choose to represent the interests of those who funded their campaign instead of lobbying for the best interest of their constituents. When lawmakers represent billionaires instead of average people, they become out of touch and the government becomes less “for the people by the people” and more “for the one percent by the one percent.”

Right now, students of the modern era, are able to go to school freely. What I mean is that anyone can go to the same school your white friends can go to. We are not segregated anymore, and now it doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Everyone is allowed equal education, and a chance for success. Before, this wasn’t allowed before. In the 1950s, schools were segregated. Whites and blacks went to different schools. But in 1960, Ruby Bridges, a black, walked into the first grade classroom in a school in New Orleans. She walked into an all white school. She was making history. Chaos occurred while she walked in and out of the school; people threw rocks and cussed at her. But, nothing stopped her from learning.

The author of the book Divided we Fall develops the idea of tolerance in the novel by writing about a Federal Identification Act that the government was trying to pass. “The Federal Identification Card would provide a high-tech replacement for flimsy paper social security cards, saving millions of dollars by streamlining and simplifying access to federal services and providing easy proof of legal eligibility for employment” (Pg 7). Many people disagreed with this act because they suspected that the government was using the cards to spy on people. There were many protest in the U.S. and especially one in Boise. “Overnight violence and vandalism have marred the second day of protests in downtown Boise as police struggle to maintain order.

The Great Depression was coined as the Great Depression for a reason. When the stock market crashed in 1929, many factory workers lost their jobs, the economy suffered severe inflation of prices, and the usual commodities, such as food and shelter, became harder to obtain. Hunger, poverty, and unemployment ravaged the broken economy and forced many out of their homes and into slums and on the streets. People struggled just to survive even to the next day. In addition to the already difficult proletarian life of the working class, the ever expanding realm of factories and machines forced skilled workers to become obsolete. Fordism and the Industrial Age caused the average working man to be highly replaceable. For example, if a worker sustained an injury on the job, and was no longer able to work, he would be sacked and a new man would be hired on the same day. These conditions created a cycle of poverty, which was nearly impossible to escape. Another side effect of the growing technological advances was the dehumanizing effects of the machine on man. As the Great Depression drew on, millions of Americans were sent into poverty and left unemployed and hungry. Many actors and filmmakers took it upon themselves to address these conditions. Charlie Chaplin was one such icon whose silent film, Modern Times set during the Great Depression Era, criticize and the effect of machine on man and individualism during the Industrial Revolution, and the rampant poverty in the

Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another. Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that his or she predetermines a person's social and moral traits and born biological characteristics. The introduction of these terms produces racial discrimination within a society. Racial discrimination has been a thorn in the side of yesterdays, today's and future generations because of its adverse effect on critical areas of one's life such as healthcare, economics, wealth and social media. Racial discrimination whether indirect or direct is a part of life that is constantly being battled with on a daily basis.

Is having a flawed society a good idea or bad? A human society that is flawed is known as a community of people who think in a particular way that is immorally right in which can cause the society to collapse. The realistic fiction novels of JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and William Golding's Lord of the Flies depict one unifying theme, corruption found in a society and unorganized chaotic civilization is the reason evil rises within certain individuals found in both books. In Lord of the Flies, the makeshift civilization that the group of boys attempt to establish collapses under the burden of their innate savagery.

Philip Kaine brings up a very interesting idea that may not have a real world application. He begins by explaining exactly how women are being oppressed and alienated in civil society. However, his conclusion that we must get rid of civil society, as it exists seems to be the only conclusion wherein no one is being alienated, oppressed, and dominated. As it stands right now women who are forced into doing housework and childcare either by societal pressures or physical pressures are being oppressed. Furthermore, when these women are being oppressed through the societal requirement of doing housework and childcare they are also being alienated as Philip Kaine points out. They are being alienated through the different spheres that arise outside of the home. Once women are being alienated, oppressed, and dominated there is something that needs to change. Philip Kaine then comes to the conclusion that we must get rid of civil society as it is now.

Society’s Black Walls In Liu Xin-Wu’s short story Black Walls the themes of self expression, identity and societal norms are explored. Through the life of Mr.Zhou, and one of his many decisions that leave him just outside the norm in his unique lifestyle. One man’s decision sends the whole courtyard community into a frenzy. The story reminded me of school and how one persons decision to dress a certain way or cut their hair differently, sends the whole grade gossiping and talking.

The vaccination given to the students are changing human nature from being opinionated, communicative and constructive to mindless slaves of people in higher positions. Citizens are being tricked to thinking otherwise of places around the world by the propaganda the government has created. The cameras eliminates the privacy and security of the place, which results in the citizens being in constant fear by the consequences that will potentially happen if they do or say something that is not acceptable. Extreme social control is harmful to the citizens of New Middletown for the reasons being provided.

In the United States there are eight core values that are recognized as the values of the nation. Within these eight values some of them contradict one another. The two must contradictory are the values of individualism and humanitarianism. Our nation was founded by people determined to establish their own personal freedom, and produce his or her own fortune. This value of individualism has been embedded in American culture since the first colonization in the new world. It has been passed through the culture, from father to son, mother to daughter to where it is today. Over time individualism has evolved but it is similar to what it was in the early days of the colonies. Unfortunately it has shifted slightly from helping one's self and society

Humans are creatures of power. They crave it, and they put it above all else. Humans are driven by their passions and not by reason or religion. The biggest passion humans crave is self-love. For this reason, all men are out for each other. The only thing they want is power and they will stop at nothing to attain that goal. In this quote, Cato explains what a man in power will do “But a tyrant shall, out of a wanton personal passion, carry fire and sword through a whole continent, and deliver up a hundred thousand of his fellow creatures to the slaughter in one day, without any remorse or further notice, than that they died for his glory”. (Cato 25). As we have learned, men are restless at their attempts to acquire power, but the real question is, how do we contain these urges? Cato has attempted to show us that in order to control men’s urges we need to create a society whose main goal is to prevent self-destruction of mankind. In order for this to occur, we need to create laws and institutions that serve to stop the greed of men. In this quote, Cato is explaining why it’s necessary to give the power to those who truly deserve it “It is therefore owing more to the necessities of men, than to their inclinations, that they have put themselves under the restraint of laws, and appointed certain persons, called magistrates, to execute them” (Cato 33). Men are controlled by their passions and without a proper government to control these urges we will be left with bloodshed.

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography , crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people’s right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil. (4)

If the plane that I was on crashed onto an island and there was no way to get off this island, than we would have to try and create a civil society and coexist with each other and avoid slipping into a state of nature. The way that I would avoid slipping into a state of nature is to set up some sort of government. The reason I would set up a government in a democratic manner is because if you had a monarch then people are more likely to rebel. If you had an even spread of power over the people where they have some say in what everyone does then they are more likely to agree with you and be more willing to follow you. If the people choose their own leader and if they are bad leaders then the people of the island will be able to repeal them and replace them with someone else who they think would be a better leader. However They should go through a council which will be represented by the people they had chosen to be in power and make up their democratic government. This council will see to it that the people are heard and they will list out why this person should or shouldn’t stay in the council. The citizen will be able to vote every year for different people in the government, the reason this is going to happen is because it is a new society and different people have different ideas. Have people with different ideas in government will help improve the community and how it is run. The government will maintain power by knowing what everyone is doing and making sure everyone is

It is difficult to find a utopian society, one that boasts perfection and happiness for all. Throughout history, the human race has gone through periods of injustice, social inequality and morally questionable doings.There are many memoirs and accounts of social injustice, though the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee reflects upon it in a perceptive manner that is difficult to embody. The social hierarchy benefited no one, from the lowest ranked coloured folk’s who were burdened by stereotypes, the outcasts whom fooled their community with deceit and the emotional damage of facing societal expectations from the upper class of society. By analyzing Lee’s work, one can concur that a socially unequal society that promotes classism destroys the unity of a community through the various adversities each class faced.