Societal hierarchy is everywhere, people are always consumed to buy and do things to appease the next rung of the ladder. This is confusing to me. It is something that transcends all facets of human individuality, race, gender, age, pretty much all of the pseudo defining qualities of a civilized peoples are rendered useless by this. Sure different groups of people are affected by different obstacles and pressures in society, thus molding each and every group's what I will call "deficiency of self" into its own disturbingly unique pitfall full of plastic surgery, 700 dollar shoes, 500 dollar hair cuts and so on and so forth. So many people I know, even if agreeing with this(by no means a new or foreign concept- not trying to re invent the wheel this is just a personal commentary on the things I see everyday.) still concede and say "oh well it's their happiness and personal blunder to blow money on things that you find to be asinine, it may not be viewed as asinine to the person doing it." or something to that degree. I find it upsetting sometimes that there isn't some level of equality especially in the monetary sense. Find yourself asking questions like "why is this person homeless if this other person has a 5 bedroom house but lives alone?" or "should this kid be made to walk 3 miles home in this neighborhood when there is someone driving right past the kids destination?" I do quite often think of these things. Lately it has been kind of crippling to a degree. I understand the problems that we deal with in this country are fucking absurd and I too find it ridiculous to even address most of our conflict as an actual problem, but this is something that does transcend all levels of individuality and even community.
My Birthday is in a month, and honestly the only thing I could wish for is that all of my friends(myself included) be a little more hip to the fact that were not the only people in this world and maybe understand how doing 4 or 5 super small things a day to help out a complete stranger can affect so much more than the face value of it all.
I will also say this, I am not proud of it but I did not vote in this past election, while somehow the results panned out to be in my favor I still consider this..... Voting is said to be a very important part of our rights, however I for the most part opt out of this, at least in the way that some human rights activists would have you believe this is the plateau for us to rise up and speak what we feel about the issues that are important to us, fuck that. Try this... the next time someone does something you feel slighted by or just see happen and really think it's awful (mistreating of a child, random acts of sexism or racism, just out and out rude behavior), you may take some shit for it and most of the time it will not be worth it to try, but tell whoever is doing these things about how whatever they are doing makes you feel and why you think it's wrong; be ready for irrational arguments and all kinds of shit. I don't know what else to say this kind of turned into a weird rant and I am ready to get off of this stupid soapbox.
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