“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” The implementation of this philosophy into an everyday situation seems like it would be an easy task. One could even think of it as an ignorant viewpoint of the world however to do so would be a slap in the face to the very idea that it stands for. Every day we are faced with challenging new events, for the purpose of this essay we will use the first day of honors class. When meeting new people, even before ever speaking with these people, it is easiest and most common to categorize them into a cliché of sorts.
To do so could prove to be wrong; to attach a stereotype to a fellow student from the beginning could prove to be a disastrous social decision. If you are wrong in this categorization and assume things then it is not productive to your social progress. How can we evade this mindset and focus on collectively building a collaborative structure of intellect? To approach this problem can only be done through the dissection of the fabric of society, evaluating this social construct, and possible ways of the implementation of a new way of living.
This sounds like a daunting task and maybe it is not even possible to fathom such an existence but let’s try for a moment. In our country, there is a system known as capitalism that promotes the idea of the American dream. This American dream provides a promoted structure of existence that is not only portrayed as complete happiness but allows for concrete sustainability for capitalism. This promoted structure of life is a fabric of society that is itself an accepted and quested stereotype. This stereotype is only a small piece of the social construct pie instituted not only in capitalism but in any form of government (except for anarchy).
Evaluating whether or not stereotypes are a good or bad use of language is just as hard a task because there is really no way to base their purpose against an alternative. I could say that they are a form of control instituted by the cyclic capitalistic system that is our government and another could say that they are our way of relating to the millions of human beings on this planet. How else can we connect or deal with the existence of other people if we are unable to categorize someone from first glance as well as not read a book by its cover, how else do we connect with other people? Would that require that we get to know every single person on a level that is personal so that they no longer fit into a stereotype but their own place in existence? This is not possible for me to conceive of.
The alternative to a life of categorisation or stereotypes would be a system that is said to be complete and utter chaos. How can there be any control whatsoever over a populace, when there is no way to group people and those groups into bigger groups? That is the prime concern for a system that wishes to maintain a certain control over its people and the only alternative that I could think of would be total anarchy. Socialism promotes a silent social construct and communism is a concrete construct and both rely on some sort of control. In anarchy, where would be the point? I mean, if the world was perfect wouldn’t it be a complete anarchy in the best sense? Everyone would live together and it would be sort of like living a dream, but that would never happen as there is always that one person who feels like they need to have power to feel better and would do anything to reach that pinnacle.
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