Mulling Classism
Like most blog posts, this is speculative. Understanding why I think how I do, and how others think and feel here in C-D. Call it an introspective moment. Does the below resonate with you, too? How is your thinking constrained, based on frame of reference?
Mine is on Class.
I am not super-constrained by emotion or sentimentality, nor do I think like the vast majority of my fellow humans. This, I have demonstrated irrefutably across more than forty years on God's green Earth. I have a moral compass more guided by rational self-interest than emotionalism. My nation, tribe, and personal needs trump those outside, without fail. At the tribal level...so-called...mine are fellow intellectuals and doers, those economically successful in the United States and, in-fact, rest of the West as well. Thus, my thought patterns and behaviors are probably more Classist than tribal, per se.
From Google: "Classism is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class. It includes individual attitudes, behaviors, systems of policies, and practices that are set up to benefit the upper class at the expense of the lower class."
Okay, let me amend the above: I am *most* interested in policies, both economic and social, that benefit those in the upper middle and upper class of Western society. While not "prejudice" per se...I do greatly admire those of low means who bootstrap themselves, and I'm willing to donate generously to causes that help others bootstrap...I will *not* donate handouts for bums, winos, addicts, and others who willfully choose behaviors keeping them perpetually in a low socioeconomic status.
I choose to discriminate in how I spend my limited time and energy, associating with those in my social class. Funny thing is, almost all of us do this. Today, as I ponder why people end up where they do in life.
Questions:
. The objective reality, though, is much grayer and requires taking a step back.
I'm a neo-Classist. Take that as you will, when reading my words.
Nosce Te Ipsum, people.
Mine is on Class.
I am not super-constrained by emotion or sentimentality, nor do I think like the vast majority of my fellow humans. This, I have demonstrated irrefutably across more than forty years on God's green Earth. I have a moral compass more guided by rational self-interest than emotionalism. My nation, tribe, and personal needs trump those outside, without fail. At the tribal level...so-called...mine are fellow intellectuals and doers, those economically successful in the United States and, in-fact, rest of the West as well. Thus, my thought patterns and behaviors are probably more Classist than tribal, per se.
From Google: "Classism is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class. It includes individual attitudes, behaviors, systems of policies, and practices that are set up to benefit the upper class at the expense of the lower class."
Okay, let me amend the above: I am *most* interested in policies, both economic and social, that benefit those in the upper middle and upper class of Western society. While not "prejudice" per se...I do greatly admire those of low means who bootstrap themselves, and I'm willing to donate generously to causes that help others bootstrap...I will *not* donate handouts for bums, winos, addicts, and others who willfully choose behaviors keeping them perpetually in a low socioeconomic status.
I choose to discriminate in how I spend my limited time and energy, associating with those in my social class. Funny thing is, almost all of us do this. Today, as I ponder why people end up where they do in life.
Questions:
- Do you empathize with C-D posters clearly having a different point of reference?
- Is your perspective somehow "better" or "more-right" than theirs?
- Are those of different views warped or wrong?
. The objective reality, though, is much grayer and requires taking a step back. I'm a neo-Classist. Take that as you will, when reading my words.
Nosce Te Ipsum, people.
