The high social orders and the low social orders have the same social habits:
Too much drinking, sexual licentiousness, excess narcotics uses, sloth, habituation to gaming and a generalized self-indulgence.
The high social orders behave in this way because they can do whatever they like.
Their behaviour has no consequences, as riches alone define the rich, so they act as they wish.
Likewise, the low social orders behave in a manner identical to the rich because no matter how they behave, they remain poor and have no incentive to live a productive life.
As with the high orders, the behaviour of the low orders has no societal consequence, as poverty alone defines the poor.
There is nothing that can be taken away from the poor man as punishment for his loutish behaviour, as he has nothing to take away.
Odd man, left out, in all this is the middle orders.
Only the middle orders hold to what, the Americans call, middle class mores, because they must do so in order to maintain their, now very tenuous, grip on their social position and not fall down the social orders ladder into poverty, the condition most feared by the Americans of the middle orders.
For the Americans of the middle orders, poverty is terminal social cancer.
Incurable and intractable and simply too horrific to contemplate.
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Mr John, you and i think alike coming from polar opposite worlds. Having been educated by the Jesuits in the concrete jungles of Jersey City, they’ve told me that life is madness and gave me the tools to deal… accept it and move along. This means i can no longer pretend not to know: The obscenely rich and the riff-raff deserve each other.
That’s why turn of the century events for the 20th C makes so much sense. We’re about to repeat it for the same reasons… the despicable dance of those two confounded groups have nowhere else to go but clash on the dance-floor of this planet… to the detriment of idiots like myself who thought it would never happen again if we simply work, pay bills, raise families, and follow the rules.
Even POTUS jokes about the “follow the rules” business. Evidently, not something to aspire to. Y’know, to be the ones holding the bag…
BTW, have you ever met Dr James CG Conniff? He was a creative writing prof at St Peter’s College a few decades ago, when i was there (class of ’81)… also, he was a literary agent and author. He was a hero of mine… Anyway, just wondering if you knew him.
I am not familiar with your Dr. Conniff but I am glad that he served an inspiration to you at school…so few teachers serve as inspiration to their students, which is sad because they have the potential to be such a powerful force for properly shaping young minds.
Thank you, sir. Yep… How can anyone forget a guy who writes BULLSHIT in huge, red letters across your first assignment as a freshman? He truly gave a damn. Years later, i find one of his sons online… an awesome author and researcher. He still has people – get this – writing to him about how wonderful his Dad was and how loved he is. Imagine that – being that blessed? No way i could ever come close, however, i am blessed having been taught by him, even for that short period time.
Take care! Until next time. 🙂
I had a guy who was really loved in philosophy but I never really got a personal impression of him because he was very sick long before the class I took with him and he died and was replaced by a different professor mid way through the class. What memory I do have of him was the love people had for him..there were grownups in their 50s and 60s who took time off to come to be in attendance for his last class..many had traveled long distance…that was a man who left an impression..and a love very hard to find and while I have to say that my impression of him was derivative because he was so sick, to see that love he engendered was a memory of a lifetime.
It is a temptation to think today that those who follow middle class rules are fools and suckers. At the same time, the antics of the rich and poor classes give some comfort that at least we can see with absolute clarity that the rich and the poor are not happy.
Amen to that! (Consolation: ALL this is temporary. Thank God!!)
God is the one to thank, always, and yes, all of life is best viewed as a dusty bus station where we twiddle our thumbs waiting for the bus to…paradise.