Sum Blog #7

Socialization of Inequality

 

I should apologize in advance because what I am going to blog about is in essence a rant on the deplorable degradation that is apparent concerning the intelligence of the younger and some older members of the U.S. population in regards of history and common sense. It is our inequality of education and intelligence. 

Anna Julia Cooper has presented an interesting viewpoint or observation, that inequality is the product of the social education that the people are given. What I see by this is that in a capitalistic society, where consumption is held as a virtue, the values of an individual can me marginalized to reflect such a value scale.

Much can be said for the state of the United States in regards to that example of socialized inequality. With our social focus of the next best thing, in conjunction to our focus on the future, not much attention is spent on the present or even the past. I see some consequence of this “In a Rush” mentality appear whenever I encounter these, “YOLO” or “SWAG” quoting individuals, some of which are older than me, and I’m 26.

What should not stand out or be focused on are these “Beliebers” acting in the moment, the illogical ramblings I see in interviews such as the one given by Rebeca Black, or an Ex-governor of Alaska who now has a reality show. What happened to the “History” on the History Channel? There has been a great disconnect from the important phrase, “Those who don’t remember their history, are doomed to repeat it!” 

 

Do Not Play with Young Children Presesnt

 

With that rant out of the way, in terms of social equality, we in the United States are generally socialized to accept others as valued individuals if not perfectly equal. I’m referring to unfortunate pocket s of holdout bigotry such as the westborough baptist church (intentionally not capitalized). We also still have that disparity of male and female pay wages which need addressing but we are doing relatively ok. The big difference is the comparison of our socialized inequality or equality when compared to those nations is obviously far worse than we are. Places like radical Middle East nations or North Korea, compared to them, we may have some lingering items on our “To Do” list, but I think we have got most of that stuff checked off.