Social Inequality

I think I ran out of topic to discuss about. Okey, just kidding. I think I am a rather opinionated person, so I always have my two cents on almost everything. Not surprisingly, I think I am correct and insightful most of the time. So what’s the lecture today, you might ask.

Well, settle down, kids. Today is about social inequality (It is good to get all the heavy topic down so that I do not need to worry about it in the future). Why social inequality? Well, remember that I am writing my dissertation these days? My damn dissertation happens to be about inequality in China. All the elite families seemed to monopolize the educational and occupational opportunities, leaving very little to have-not families. "Oh, how horrible is that!" "Socialist system is horrible." blah, blah, blah…. I, for one, always firmly defended China, because if everyone looked at their own backyard carefully, they could dig up so much dirt underneath. China's system is not good, but so are other systems.

I am always surprised by people's ignorance about history or reality. I guess it is human nature to learn things to make them feel good or superior. To me, China's history book about the Cultural Revolution is a joke, but the history of American's Constitution, Civil War, Adventures of Columbus? Are you kidding me that's how it happened? It only made me feel soon enough we will have a revisionist history about War against Terror. Taking about brainwash. Gerald Ford just died, but how many people knew that he and Kissinger permitted Indonisia's invasion of East Timor, which killed 1/3 of the population on the island? In comparison, Saddam Hossein is not so bad after all. Now Ford had this honorable national funeral, and Saddam will be hanged in 30 days. And then what about 9/11 terrorists? How many people they killed?

Winners always write history. The more you know what really happened, you began to be a cynic. Social inequality happened peacefully, but it still counted as an act of violence (Remember the Weatherman Underground Movement?). I just takes some hard learning to discover it, not like religion, very democratic for its easy accessibility and very stupid for the underclass to think their life is a suffering with a higher purpose. People died every day without knowing who was the perpetrator, but then those high-class people worried more about the rights of an unborn baby or a dog puppy (My biggest laughing material is all the money, media attention and sympathy towards Barbaro the racing horse. Come on, people, tell me it is not serious. It is only a horse!).

All the complaints aside, however, I am not the savior for the world. What I am planning to do is to get ahead to be an elite myself. That will make sure nobody can step on me, and my best hope is that I will do my best not to step on somebody else. That's the biggest irony of all.