Sunday, April 22, 2012

The Rich get Richer and the poor get poorer


All I could do when I read this article was laugh. I laughed because this is something I wondered about for so long but never really knew the answer too. It was something that I believed and I couldn’t prove. It was something that had been affecting me my whole life but I could never really see with my own eyes. It’s amazing when you think about it. There are so many things occurring in our life that we can’t even control. Like how the wealthy keep us right where they want us and because they are the wealthy there isn’t much we can do about it.
A lot of Marxism comes into this document if you start to dissect it and think about it. Because you start to realize that there is the wealthy who have the money and the power and the poor who have neither. And they stigmatize us as much as they can to keep us where we are. They don’t want to share what they have with us. The less wealthy people in the world the wealthier the wealthy people are. If everyone was wealthy they wouldn’t even be considered wealthy people anymore they’d be normal and *gasp* they don’t want that. They are similar to if you had two kids and gave one 2 cookies.  And said “Share”. And kind child would share and let them be even but that’s a socialist mentality. Most kids would be against sharing and they would rather keep both cookies because technically the cookies are theirs and they don’t have to share and that’s more for them. That’s the capitalist mentality. And that is the reason why this country will always be corrupt. Because the rich want to continue getting richer and the only way for them to do that is to take money from others. And that’s usually from those who don’t have much to begin with. Therefore the rich (because they have the power) will continue to get richer and the poor will continue to get poorer unless something huge occurs.

Monday, April 2, 2012

The Deviants

I've always wondered why no matter how hard I tried I could never fit in. I could never be part of a group. It used to make me really depressed and i thought i didn't belong anywhere. But as i got older I've learned to embrace this difference in myself from others. This was when i realized i was a deviant.


Deviance is breaking or refusing to follow a social rule. The rule can be society wide or specific to a particular group or situation. And a deviant is someone who has qualities of deviance. This was the reason i could never fit into a group. Because i was trying to fit into societies norms which i subconsciously rejected. I wanted to fit in but i didn't want to conform. I have a huge tendency to break social rules. I hate the feeling of being confined. By anyone or anything. Being a clone you know, just like everyone else. I sometimes feel that i must break social rules just to prove that i am not like everyone else. I'm different. I am Fayne Shepherd and there is no one like me.

One huge way i display that is my appearance. Having long hair is one example. It symbolizes taking a stand against corporate society because the norms say that having short hair is what is acceptable. Also my entire wardrobe consists of all black clothes. Black also being a symbol of rebelling to society and not conforming to its norms. Also i always speak exactly what i think. In normal society you are supposed to filter and censor certain things but my brain doesn't work that way. If i want to say it then it gets said and I'll think about it later maybe. Most people cannot handle how truthful I am and how I'm not afraid to say exactly how i feel.

I just hate that deviance has to be seen as a negative thing. The word itself sounds negative. I find friends in "Deviant" people because these are the more interesting people of the world. Why would anyone want friends who are clones of everyone else? It is the deviant people of the world who are the people who can bring spice to your life and make you see it in a different light.