Heirachy

Now to consider the heirachy of Britain in a wider aspect.

That café in the photo sits nicely in the middle of my hometown, Bournemouth. Recently, while in town, I sat on a small ledge just to the left of where this photo was taken. With a coffee in my hand, I watched the world go buy from the cover of my heavily-tinted glasses. In that short space of time in which I was waiting to meet up with some people, I saw a lot of things.

The first thing was (as I said previously) a man in a fairly nice suit, the trousers were quite short and showed a pair of white socks though, how tacky. He looked quite distressed, with his left hand covering his face and his right holding a fairly scratched iPhone. He had a cup of coffee in front of him and a copy of The Sun (or The Star). As he put the phone down and walked away, you could see he was annoyed about something. Perhaps it was the way he marched off or the fact he had just realised that he had lost something. He did that thing people do when they're confused, sort of flap about and check every pocket two or three times, even though they know it's not there.





Then as he marched off, the charity worker came into view. He seemed like a fairly nice chap, unshaven and wearing a vest promoting some sort of animal welfare charity. A smile seemed to be stuck on his face and it seemed every time my eye was cast on him, he was always saying pleasentries to another shopper and wishing them a 'good day'. The businessman marched through him and shot a glare at the chap who had just wished him 'good day'. This sort of thing can really make a person sad. Not sad like when you see a puppy with a missing leg. But sad in such a way that you are saddened by the way it reflects us. (Pardon my awful sentencing there).

Heirachy. It's a very interesting term. I think it's basically showing the class system in a pyramid form. The working class is at the bottom, with the largest amount of people. The middle classes sit in the middle, with an average amount. And the upper classes sit just above the middle, right at the top, with a much lesser number. Perhaps it's good to have a heirachy that puts people 'in their rightful place'. Or perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it's a bad thing that splits people and makes people feel ashamed for talking to people below them in the pyramid.

Considering my recent change of heart, I now think that classes should be abolished. Why should people think they're above others because they've got more money? Here's a quote from my mother: "Does the fact that Wayne Rooney is rich mean that he is also upper class?" No it doesn't. If we are going to have a class system, then it should be based around something else.

Heirachy. It's a very interesting term. All it does is boost and break people's egos.

Hopefully this poster will give a better representation of the problems with class and heirachy:

-Steve