Social Crap and Bathroom Wars

The more I think about it, the social crap is a system unto itself that runs parallel to the official structure. You can have an official hierarchy and a social hierarchy, and official class division and a social class division. These two systems sometimes overlap, but they often operate independently of each other.

Like so many other words, "class" may be defined in more than one way. The way I was using it has nothing to do with politics or philosophy, it just means the division of a population into two or more groups with a distinct line drawn between them. Although there are sub groups, school populations are divided into two main classes, the kids and the adults. In the military you have the officers and the enlisted men. In the corporate work place you have the hourly and the management. Although I would prefer a classless world, I can live with official class designations like these because they are based on some practical consideration that is meant to enhance the efficiency of the operation. Come to think of it, though, these official class systems are intertwined with social crap, and I'm not sure which came first, the official or the social. Nevertheless, as long as the primary function of a system is to enhance the operation, I will go along with it but, when the social crap becomes a thing unto itself that overshadows the practical purpose of the system, I will protest.

Then there is your generic social crap that has nothing to do with the function of the operation. This is where the "cool" factor come into play. I suppose there's nothing wrong with this unless it causes material harm to either the participants or the operation, but it is, after all, a diversion, something we do in our spare time. In all cases, the job should come first. This is what I meant when I said that many people put their social crap ahead of their job which, in my opinion, they shouldn't do.

I saw something in the paper today about those bathroom wars. (Yes, we have re-subscribed to the Cheboygan Daily Tribune, after this nice lady promised to go into her computer and fix it so we won't be charged for stuff we didn't order. According to her, the official policy can't be changed, but she can opt us out of it somehow. Not the way I prefer to operate, but it's better than nothing.) Anyway, it seems that these kids who are changing genders in school are not having sex change operations, they are merely declaring that they have changed genders, and everybody is supposed to go along with it. I can see where some boys might have fun with this by declaring themselves to be girls just so they can hang out in the girls' locker room. Back in our day, no girl would ever consider doing something like that, but they're equal now, so why not? Another thing is that, when a kid comes out like this, the parents are not to be notified because that would be an invasion of the child's privacy. As a wise old philosopher once said, "Every time you think you've seen it all, you find out that you ain't seen nothing yet."