Let's compare what is successful/failure in history to what is successful/failure now... MY VIEW!
Success in history: Industrialization (great big buildings, building of cities, town, urban center, etc)
Failure in current society due to the success in history: Lack of natural beauties, and resources such as parks, lakes, etc. Not enough "green" due to many concrete in the cities
Success in history: using fuels, and energy resources to make things go faster and more efficient
Failure in current society due to the success in history: total dependent on those fuels lead to wars
Success in history: using pesticide and other chemicals so that the produce/meats are abundant
Failure in current society due to the success in history: chemicals/pesticides used may lead to the increase risk in cancer and other health related issues. \
Success in history: use all natural resources available to make the human life more sustainable
Failure in current society due to the success in history: lack of natural resources, pollution, unsustainable environment, and simply put -- Earth is full of garbage and trash!
So what's your opinion? is all the success in the history worth all the sufferings we are going through now? If it's up to me, I would rather live in a tropical country by the beach with a forest where I can cultivate my food for the day.
Monday, July 2, 2012
classifications of ... well, classes
More surprising stuff for me to read -- WOW, I'm not surprised.
"Hey -- listen to this," and I read the entire passage of what is considered a middle class in the Industrial revolution days. The factory or mine owners, bankers and merchants who send their kids to Oxford and Cambridge University. In current society, they will be considered wealthy or upper class or "the 1%." Continued to read.... "Politically they were liberals, favoring constitutional government, private property, free trade, and social reform within limits." Wealthy liberals? That's unheard of. Wealthy folks are statistically more Republicans with more conservative views on the Political and Social reforms. Let's not even get me started on talking about the abortion rights and gay-marriage with these Republicans.
OK reading onto... "Laboring class" or working class... They sounded more to me like the way, we, Americans use the immigrants to do our unwanted chores, housekeepings, works (Agricultural) and pay little to none as wages with poor living conditions. Now, if that's called the laboring class -- what class am I in? I do not belong to the middle class, nor the laboring class. Maybe that's why I don't qualify for another government help (i.e Financial aid) yet I don't make enough money to pay on my own (for school) either... Why must folks like me suffer?
"Hey -- listen to this," and I read the entire passage of what is considered a middle class in the Industrial revolution days. The factory or mine owners, bankers and merchants who send their kids to Oxford and Cambridge University. In current society, they will be considered wealthy or upper class or "the 1%." Continued to read.... "Politically they were liberals, favoring constitutional government, private property, free trade, and social reform within limits." Wealthy liberals? That's unheard of. Wealthy folks are statistically more Republicans with more conservative views on the Political and Social reforms. Let's not even get me started on talking about the abortion rights and gay-marriage with these Republicans.
OK reading onto... "Laboring class" or working class... They sounded more to me like the way, we, Americans use the immigrants to do our unwanted chores, housekeepings, works (Agricultural) and pay little to none as wages with poor living conditions. Now, if that's called the laboring class -- what class am I in? I do not belong to the middle class, nor the laboring class. Maybe that's why I don't qualify for another government help (i.e Financial aid) yet I don't make enough money to pay on my own (for school) either... Why must folks like me suffer?
Feminism
It is surprising (ok maybe not really) that the actual feminist movement started in 1848 with Cady's statement of "all men and women are created equal" and that the actual feminists started with a "soriority" of women gathering together to talk about equal opportunities for both men and women. Their movements worked because by 1900s some women were enrolled in colleges.
So called "experts" "argued that the strains of education and life in the world outside the home would cause serious reproductive damage and as a consequence depopulate the nation." I am so glad that these women didn't listen to those experts and proceeded to fight for the women rights. If it weren't for them, we, women will still be at home with our mouths closed as if we have no sayings in the things happening around us.
As I'm working as administrator of an assisted living, I had the pleasure of knowing a resident who was 100 years old at her death who was a medical doctor. Polli was definitely one of the pioneer woman medical doctors - yet she was the most wonderful, appreicative, fun-loving and modest woman I have met in my life. She gave me inspiration that if you work at it, it can be achieved.
Unfortunately, there are studies happening currently that show that men and women are not equal as they thought they were. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/the-gender-pay-gap-persists-especially-for-the-rich/
Wait! What!? I'm more qualified and spent more effort/time working on a project -- yet the man makes 20% more than me? Where the heck is the equal opportunity? It's not supposed to be equal opportunity actually, because I'm more qualified than him.
So called "experts" "argued that the strains of education and life in the world outside the home would cause serious reproductive damage and as a consequence depopulate the nation." I am so glad that these women didn't listen to those experts and proceeded to fight for the women rights. If it weren't for them, we, women will still be at home with our mouths closed as if we have no sayings in the things happening around us.
As I'm working as administrator of an assisted living, I had the pleasure of knowing a resident who was 100 years old at her death who was a medical doctor. Polli was definitely one of the pioneer woman medical doctors - yet she was the most wonderful, appreicative, fun-loving and modest woman I have met in my life. She gave me inspiration that if you work at it, it can be achieved.
Unfortunately, there are studies happening currently that show that men and women are not equal as they thought they were. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/the-gender-pay-gap-persists-especially-for-the-rich/
Wait! What!? I'm more qualified and spent more effort/time working on a project -- yet the man makes 20% more than me? Where the heck is the equal opportunity? It's not supposed to be equal opportunity actually, because I'm more qualified than him.
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