So, you know Sociology; the science of studying human behaviour as a whole, something like group psychology?
Well, I am studying it for an A2 level course and have truely had my definitions of good and evil within the subject redefined over the past few days. I always held that New Right Theory were the devils of Sociology, with such heart warming and tender theories as "The poor deserve to be poor - they make themselves poor and thus society should not help them" and "If you do not maintain a stable father figure in life you will join a criminal underclass and become society's dregs". Well, not so! These self-important snots are just that; Oppinionated and biggoted middle class worms with little or no real life perspective.
No, evil raises it's head in another form, specifically that of Vilfredo Pareto.
Let's focus for a second on the name alone: Vilfredo Pareto. He sounds like a vampire. Real people are not born with names like Vilfredo Pareto, real people have names like Daniel Smith or Robert Appleson. My own name is something of a press at Kieran O'Mant, but I consider myself a little odd of character so no loss if my name is unusual as well. Vilfredo Pareto. He sounds like
1. The villain in a gangster film,
2. An important but ultimately subservient lackey to dracula or
3. A crazed scientist with the eventual aim of world domination.
Now it's not really fair to assume this mans moral standing on his name, but mere seconds into his theory we find further evidence for his evil: he maintains a sociological standpoint akin to anti-Marxism. I like Marxists. I might even be considered one, I am certainly left wing and the concept of a bourgoisie or other oppressive ruling elite seems quite plausible, if some of the specifics of the theory can be alarmist.
But no! Vilfredo Pareto states that there is indeed a ruling elite within society, governing and opressing the masses but that this is fair and just and that society will be damaged or destroyed if ever one attempts to impose equality!
And then, and I quote here from my book of Sociology, a comprehensive volume if ever there was one, "Vilfredo Pareto expands on the theory of his countryman and intellectual ancestor MACHIAVELLI!"
Machiavelli?! Author of The Prince? The literal handbook on evil? Yes, the same! Machiavelli was famous for confessing his evil, and encouraging evil in others as a way of seizing political power!
Surely Pareto knows he is evil. How can he not be? Still I find him preferable to New Right. He seems almost honestly evil.
Anywho, I have recently overcome a horrible illness which caused much general distress and often delusions.
And Infected Mushroom just started using a distorted guitar in the song I'm listening to. I shit you not.
I love musical overlap.
Well, I must away my loves to eat free pizza and then get ready for an insane party which will likely end with police intervention, in which case I shalln't be writing for a bit.
Toodles lovies! ^^
xxx
Saturday, 8 November 2008
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