| User | JetPilot |
| Topic | Social Status |
| Message | We have all been in communities where you are either at the top, in the middle or on the bottom. It has really been pissing me off lately but my English teacher says that Social status in nesiscary (sp) for our survival. I just want to know where everyone thinks they stand, and ther oppinions on it.
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| User | kanu | 2006-06-14 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Depends if you also happen to be a homeless guy out the front of the liquor store
:) |
| User | ghostknight | 2006-06-13 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | and how many of us are giving money to the homeless guy outside the liquor store? isn’t it really a quesetion of instrinsic motivation as to where a person tends to end up in life? |
| User | Lost Sheep | 2006-06-12 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I suppose it depends on the exact definition of "social status". Some people think of status as money, to me it’s more about acceptance by others. In any event, we all have social status of one kind or another. We can be accepted by one group and shunned by a second. That sort of defines our social status.
I can agree to something close to the English teacher. We need to understand our current social status to be happy. We also need to realize that we can change it whenever we want to. Steve |
| User | kanu | 2006-06-12 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Well communism didn’t work - there is a joke, popular in old communist countries
What is capitalism? It is a few people taking advantage of the many What is communism? It is a few people taking advantage of the many Even if you’re going to advocate a non-cooperation policy you are still doing that under an established social system - like there is some prominant writer or thinker and you agree with their ideas or whatever - there is no escapingthe gradation of higher and lower because it is intrinsic to the universe - but of course these things are all material designations - materially we are variagated but spiritually we are composed of the same substance |
| User | dismentled | 2006-06-12 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I think it’s bullshyt. But that doesn’t mean your teachers wrong, it just means the world doesn’t work accordingly to what some think it should. They also say conformity is necessary. If you look at society and it’s sucessors it’s often those who know people, not necessariyl those who deserve it that make it big. Whether it’s music, acting, and or corporate america. I still refuse to conform, and have no social status what so-ever, nor have I ever, but I also deal with the consequences, both percieved as good and bad. Many people say they rather be hated for who they are than loved for who they aren’t; but very few actually walk the walk. More power to you if you can, or will. |