Always Two Groups

Life the way we know it could be called our collective experience. We know all about Western civilization, meaning all of the white societies. Confining ourself to just those, and to this collective experience, what can we say about these societies? What can we say about those societies we can definitively testify about, the white ones? White societies -- when you study history -- are all divided into two groups. That is so. It could be more, too, I know, but let's basically say two, for simplicity, OK? At any rate, there's a basic division that is always there, although in the U. S. we have something unique --- a tendency to deny it. As if we are all "equal." The truth is that there are these two (or could be more) classes of person in all the human societies we know about -- the ones we know intimately. I can tell you what they are, but just think for yourself, OK? Is that hard? It must be very scary.

Think about your experience of life and YOU can be the expert instead of me.

We don't need to get anthropological. Our societies that we know all have something in common and this is that there is an official group and a low-income group. One gets into the record books, as it were. There is a record of "the Romans," not the slaves, who, come to think of it, would be called Romans, too. But the name of a slave is only recorded once in awhile. The system is not set up to record their existence. But we know they do exist -- this other group exists, and we know it quite well, but it is one that everyone ignores. They are as if part of the woodwork. Something like that. So one group is "famous." The other is not even official -- officially included in our cultural discourse. As if they are totally unknown.

But I am not saying excluded. That would be something different.

They are not important enough. So, I couldn't say excluded. They are ignored, not excluded. They are not important enough spend that much time on. Persons are too much of a reality to be excluded. Anyways, the lower classes have an important role. Therefore: your society has to include everyone but some are relegated to the lower class.

It is that they are not usually important enough to be written about. Oh yeah, I know about "Children of Sanchez," by Oscar Lewis. So that's why I am not in college. And the next volume he wrote was "Pedro Martinez," which I recently purchased. Used.

Still, I am basically right about this. And: How can we pretend everyone is equal when they are not?