In A Sense Have The Hunger Games And Never Let Me Go Happened

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In what possible way can WWI resemble The Hunger Games apart from there being some young people getting killed? I know this is alternate history, but really...

Similarly, it is often argued in PolChat that while, yes, there are a number of wealthy execs who work long hours, there are also toilet cleaners who work for long hours and rather less pay. This works both ways. Businessmen conduct business. They are not The Idle Rich.
 
Maybe I feel so strongly that in a sense these things have happened is because I come from such a highly classist society! Surely my tangental point that we are all subjected to a highly dominant and domineering middle class narrative can hardly be disputed? Also please explain the 10-14 year life expectancy gap, to me if its 14 seconds of a gap its incredibly serious! Oh let me answer this one from the dominant narrative - working class people dont take care of themselves!
S.W. I do not know how old you are, but I am a forty-two year old retired soldier. I am also a woman from a definitivly LOWER middle class background.

The United States claims not to be a class based society, but anyone who has been to a four year High School knows that THAT isn't so at all.

That said, as a Soldier and from that perspective I can and will tell you this.

No one on this earth is guarunteed so much as one second of life.

No one is ENTITLED to live, not even me. There are so many ways to die and the human machine is so fragile and easy to snuff out that we are not promised or guarunteed one single second more that ech one we happen to have.

I have intimate knowledge regarding both war and poverty, having tasted a bellyfull of both in my years and I can tell you, that both issues are far more complex than you are making them out to be.

You are trying to turn both issues into a case of "RIch=bad, Poor=good"

Life doesn't work that way.

If a solution or a postulate sounds simple and easy, then it is probably wrong.

You are trying to cast yourtself as the heroes in two stories you cfflearly like very much, I get that, I can even sympaties, but real life is not a story, and it doesn't work the way stories work.

YOu are demonising people for being different from you and or dissagreeing with you, and that is a fundamentally unintelligent move, dear sir.

I understand that you feel strongly about these issues, but that is no excuse for allowing your emotions to run away with the show and turn acivilisized disscusion into an ad hominim attack.

I was taught by my grandfather a retired Marine and a retired Teacher that If you cannot speak civily, then perhaps it is best if you do not speak.
 
WW1 = a generation of young people condemned to exist in insane to say the least circumstances and a lot more killed than during the hunger games! My tangental question has not been addressed is the life expectancy gap correct? Also the prevailing middle class narrative which we invariable encounter in the media has about as much relevance to the lifes of working class people as a man talking about abortion ie virtually none at all!
 
Of course I am not calling for the extermination of any class but I do feel as a working class person it is my duty to educate the middle crasses and upwards on the plight of working class people! BTW why whats the justification for a 10-14 year life expectancy gap and is it not a cause for concern that it exists for all civilised people?
"The middle crasses"

Really?

Remember the rules of civilized debate, good sir, and if you wish to be taken seriously, please follow them.
 
WW1 = a generation of young people condemned to exist in insane to say the least circumstances and a lot more killed than during the hunger games! My tangental question has not been addressed is the life expectancy gap correct? Also the prevailing middle class narrative which we invariable encounter in the media has about as much relevance to the lifes of working class people as a man talking about abortion ie virtually none at all!
World war one was a war. a subject I know quite a bit more about that you do, good sir,

Do not presume to lecture me on how unfair it is that some soldiers die and some do not.

I have had my own deep struggles with survivor's guilt I can tell you that.

War, death and poverty are three very serious subjects and they must be disscussed seriously.

Please do so good sir, or do not disscuss them.
 
SlickWilly, you do realise your post in this thread sound rather like insane and incoherent ramblings? Perhaps next time put in another couple of minutes work into your next post?
 
WW1 = a generation of young people condemned to exist in insane to say the least circumstances and a lot more killed than during the hunger games! My tangental question has not been addressed is the life expectancy gap correct? Also the prevailing middle class narrative which we invariable encounter in the media has about as much relevance to the lifes of working class people as a man talking about abortion ie virtually none at all!

Unfortunately your dialectic is driven by an unshakeable belief in a "truth" which has not been established.

I suggest you take some classes in logic and philosophy which are not run by Marxists
 

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I post on a political website at home in Ireland which is a highly disgusting classist society in many respects! Whenever I start a thread which challenges the prevailing middle class analysis on that forum it immediately gets zooed. Why? Because the moderators are in denial! In the case of this OP what are ye afraid of?

Well, I guess this Forum will have to "Zoo" you as well.

This is one of the finer bits of self serving lunacy we have had here in a while.

I know you are not actually bat-shit insane, you have been here long enough to know that isn't the case. So you have either gone off your meds or are trolling the Board. Either way you need some time to ground and center yourself. Take a week.

Oh, BTW, thread locked.
 
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