#social classes

[furiousgoldfish]

I hate that us humans built a whole ‘who deserves what’ hierarchy and it follows no sense or justice or benevolence. If people have to deserve to live, to eat, to have a shelter, to be safe, then it’s so much easier to abuse someone by saying ‘you didn’t deserve it’. And even more easier for abusive parents to convince their kids they haven’t deserved to be cared for.

Animals don’t do this shit, as soon as they exist they go ‘I will demand this thing I need until I get it’ and nobody can condition them to think otherwise. But, you can condition humans to believe they’re not worthy of resources, shelter, affection, acceptance, love, and everything else. There is no real ‘deserving’ system. It’s our birthright to have things we need to survive, we’re alive! The alternative is that we die or live in pain! Nobody deserves that. There is no justice in this idea. Nobody is getting what they deserve.

[stairnaheireann]

Brehon Law | The Troscad

A method of exerting authority, available to all members of Celtic society, was the ritual fast, the troscad. As a legal form of redressing a grievance, this act emerged in the Brehon law system. That it was an ancient ritual can be demonstrated by the fact that it bears almost complete resemblance to the ancient Hindu custom of dbarna. This custom is not only found in the Laws of Manu but as…

[bxdtime-ceai]

I cant help but to dislike rich/wealthy people as a default. Having that much money is just so immoral to me even if you were born into it. As soon as you become snobby, it becomes hate. But before that, for every rich person it's a hard dislike

[addressingsophism]

Controversial Take On: Social Services

Social Services is just about maintaining the status quo at a quieter volume.

There is no push for higher education, careers, justice or a goal of eventual complete independent seamless integration. Their goal is to warehouse people in SROs and shelters and sell them in a circle to other agencies and clinics to create some form of slavery based on collecting people as statistics and perpetual patients and trading them for cash prizes.

To turn the poor into a commodity that they can look down upon to feel superior; to justify their position of power, and to pat themselves on the back for breaking people's legs and then offering them a bed to wail in.

They blur the line between voluntary and compulsory by way of ignoring their how their system uses bureaucracy to gatekeep and apply force.

When all else fails in attempts to dominate and control the flow of resources, they resort to malicious compliance, groupthink, mindguard and DARVO.

Because they have declared themselves arbitors and saviors, society has laid all easy access to resources at their feet; they become the discretionary gatekeepers of life and death, with zero checks and balances that grant any power to the clients and patients involved.

People comply because there are no other lower-hill options.

This is by design.

[myths-of-fantasy]

The Farlands Worldbuilding - Titles and Honorifics

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Kit - a very young kit who isn't allowed far from the den without their parents

Paw - a cat who is younger than you who is in need of guidance or training

Pad - a cat who is of a lesser rank thank you, regardless of age

Ir - a cat who is of equal status and rank to you

Ari - a cat who is of a higher rank than you but not an overseer, theurgist or healer, used before being given name privilege

EXAMPLE - GRAY speaking to OTHERS

Graypaw speaking to Rusty -> Grayir or even Gray Graypaw speaking to Bearkit -> Graypad Graypaw speaking to Lionheart -> Lionari

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Star - a respectful title for an Overseer

Thur - a respectful title for an Overseer, specific to the Thunder Sector

Gar - a respectful title for an Overseer, specific to the Wind Sector

Umer - a respectful title for an Overseer, specific to the Shadow Sector

Hiro - a respectful title for an Overseer, specific to the River Sector

(I)nur - a respectful title for an Overseer, specific to the Eskey Sector Leader Examples:

Bluestar -> Bluethur Magpiestar -> Magpiegar Stagstar -> Stagumer Stormstar -> Stormhiro WIckerstar -> Wickerinur

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Bor - a respectful term for a healer, aligned or otherwise

Luk - a respectful term for a healer aligned to your sector

Ya - a respectful term for a healer not aligned to your sector

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Tura - a respectful title for a magic-user, sealed or otherwise

Chor - a respectful title for a sealed magic user

Mur - a respectful title for an unsealed magic user

Zappy - a disrespectful title for a magic user, sealed or otherwise

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[paigeypaige19]

Do not be so hard on the child. She is a product of her upbringing, just as you are. If you judge her worth based on frivolities, then you are doing the same as those who judge you based on your simple clothing.

Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

[ancedotally]

i don’t think it is appreciated enough how privilege more economically well off people genuinely have the time to process and understand new knowledge compared to low socioeconomic people

[deadlywaltz]

A 2019 study at Marquette University found that ‘individuals who have a higher income or a higher social status were the most likely to say that success results from luck rather than hard work’ and that ‘individuals with lower income were more likely to say success comes from hard work’. But as Rob Henderson stated, ‘believing you are responsible for your life’s direction rather than external forces appears to be beneficial’. This is the perfect example of a luxury belief: the rich and educated will spread the idea that success comes from luck and thereby undermine self-efficacy luring the lower classes to believe that; while they’ll keep the secret to themselves and their children: success is a matter of hard work.

(you can follow me on twitter now too: @deadlywaltz )

[dudewayspecialfarewell]

We've had like 200 years to research, clone, and bring dinosaurs to life and the best thing humanity can do is put two poor guys most likely to be underpaid under the costume of a triceratops for kids that are most likely to do the same stupid thing one day.

That is the best wat to explain my vision on humanity and hope

[crazycatsiren]

My one basic opinion is that nobody should ever have to live in poverty and boy oh boy does this make some motherfuckers real mad!

[poligraf]

The aggregation of the spiritual life from the practical life is a curse that falls impartially upon both sides of our existence. A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

— Lewis Mumford

[esha-kode]

plane rides 🛩

In T-14 hours, I will be getting on a 30-hour plane ride. As I put aside clothes to wear for the plane ride this morning, I thought Damn, this plane ride is gonna be hell. My legs are going to be so crammed and my digestive system will go haywire and my back is gonna die. That thought led to me thinking about the notion of the classes on planes (ie, first-class, business-class, economy-class).…

[stairnaheireann]

Brehon Law | The Troscad

Brehon Law | The Troscad

A method of exerting authority, available to all members of Celtic society, was the ritual fast, the troscad. As a legal form of redressing a grievance, this act emerged in the Brehon law system. That it was an ancient ritual can be demonstrated by the fact that it bears almost complete resemblance to the ancient Hindu custom of dbarna. This custom is not only found in the Laws of Manu but as…

[aurianneor]

Saving the language

Language is above all a means of communication. “People need other people to live. So that we can exchange and support each other, we communicate with each other. Communication in the broadest sense takes many forms: we exchange information, share feelings, show affection and sometimes create situations of conflict. We use communication to develop our identity and to obtain other people’s opinions about our behaviour. Through communication, a common space can be created in which the attention of all participants can be brought together. (…) Language is only a small part of the whole spectrum of possible communication, but it plays a very important role.” (https://www.contakt-enfance.ch/fr/bon-a-savoir/communication-et-langue.html)

In the newspaper Le Monde, academics call for urgent reform to simplify spelling, because it is full of archaisms that do not help understanding but are a barrier to learning, particularly for children and adults from disadvantaged backgrounds or whose or for whom French is not their mother tongue.

« Pourquoi il est urgent de mettre à jour notre orthographe » – Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/10/15/pourquoi-il-est-urgent-de-mettre-a-jour-notre-orthographe_6194603_3232.html

At the same time, the conservatives published an article in Le Figaro in defence of a fixed French language as a marker of identity and they are prescribing more dictations to make schoolchildren conform.

«Le français ne va pas si bien, hélas» – Le Figaro: https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/le-francais-ne-va-pas-si-bien-helas-20230524

Linguistic racism exists.

Since the revolution and then the Universal Declaration of Human Rights abolished discrimination on grounds of religion, sex, opinion or skin colour, mastery of the incongruities of language has become a new tool for dividing citizens into classes. The fundamental idea of the Reaction is that there are natural differences between people, that some are made to succeed and others to suffer: The prefix aristo- means “the best” and the suffix -cratie means “in power”. To maintain this aristocracy, they need to be able to recognise each other in order to re-establish privileges and destroy equal access to opportunities.

Language is a tool of communication; its raison d’être is to build together, to to turn towards others. Reactionaries use it to divide and denigrate. They use it to create artificial barriers to the integration of migrants or any other speaker of non-pure French.

Our ability to unite citizens is the best guarantee of the civilisation.

Ancient Rome is often cited as an example of integration. Barbarians there had full citizenship and were given access to the most prestigious positions. But Ovid reminded us that “Yet, there is no good barbarian poet”. The mere fact that such a person could be said to be a barbarian, even for a simple lack of mastery of the subtleties of the language, has fostered a feeling of “them and us” that is still very much alive today. The disaster of Andrinople created two fratricidal factions. This division led to the fall of the empire. Rome was rich in immigration and its immigrants were integrated, but not fully. The two factions killed each other. The Huns, who were only a handful, watched in disbelief as Romans killed Romans and razed Rome to the ground.

L’empire optimiste – Les Romains face à l’intégration des barbares: https://laviedesidees.fr/L-empire-optimiste

There can be no integration if the condition of access to full recognition means abandoning one’s native language, a regional dialect or a typical accent. Our society rejects those who do not have a perfect command of the language. Some could have integrated if the path of were not littered with absurd and archaic obstacles.

We have to accept that the French language has more speakers outside its country of origin and outside the upper classes. These ‘others’ have French either as their first language or as an additional language. Are Canadians, Ivorians, Swiss, Vietnamese, Belgians and others less ‘noble’ because of their different use of the language? Is a hierarchy desirable?

If there were a hierarchy, there would be an invariable “good French”. But that doesn’t exist, language evolves. It belongs to its speakers. From the very first verses of Ronsard, Molière, Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas, it’s clear that the old masters understood that French had to evolve with the times. In fact, when you read them, you can see that the language has evolved. Shakespeare is always performed in the original text, where there was no fixed spelling of words and where Shakespeare cheerfully invented many words, some of which are still used today. To save the language, let it live and grow. Spelling reform is necessary to ensure the cohesion of our societies.

CHRONIQUE. Faut-il réformer l’orthographe française ?: – France Info: https://youtu.be/n4lerQpM-TM?feature=shared

Le temps est venu de moderniser et de démocratiser l’orthographe – Inégalités: https://www.inegalites.fr/Le-temps-est-venu-de-moderniser-et-de-democratiser-l-orthographe

Du «racisme» linguistique : https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/libre-opinion/772016/libre-opinion-du-racisme-linguistique?

Langues, accents: les discriminations oubliées – l’express: https://www.lexpress.fr/societe/langues-accents-les-discriminations-oubliees_1777999.html

The pervasive problem of ‘linguistic racism’ – BBC: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210528-the-pervasive-problem-of-linguistic-racism

‘You can’t even talk English, so don’t talk!’ How linguistic racism impacts immigrants in the UK: https://theconversation.com/you-cant-even-talk-english-so-dont-talk-how-linguistic-racism-impacts-immigrants-in-the-uk-182173

Opinion, Everyone has an accent – We need to set aside the illusion that there is a single true and authentic way to speak – New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/sunday/everyone-has-an-accent.html

English is not pure or in peril: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/english-is-not-pure-or-in-peril/

Accents and Social mobility: https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/speaking-up-accents-social-mobility/

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Ils parlaient toutes les langues: https://www.aurianneor.org/ils-parlaient-toutes-les-langues-ce-photomontage-a/

Is that a yack? The Lama scene: https://www.aurianneor.org/is-that-a-yack-the-lama-scene-thats-the-title/

Yes to educational freedom for all: https://www.aurianneor.org/yes-to-educational-freedom-for-all-teachers/

Immigration: https://www.aurianneor.org/immigration-2/

The best way to learn everyday French every day: https://www.aurianneor.org/dont-think-dont-try-to-understand-just/

Sauver la langue: https://www.aurianneor.org/sauver-la-langue/

[hezigler]

“Old Money” To No Money: America’s Social Class Structure, Explained

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith

[straight-gamer-yusur]