Looking back

The blog assignment for this week is to look over any discussion or text that we have encounter during class and reflect on it.

I will be reflecting back on Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly. Well I'm not really going to reflect on the book it self but the themes that we have discuss during the class when we were reading the book.One of the major theme that I really enjoy and keep thinking about is Social Darwinism. The fact what I like about the discuss ion is that it blew my mind about Social Darwinism on what I thought it was a fight against the bigger foe. What I use to think was that the lower class are only going to attack the upper class but what the reality was they also attack the lower class, which was attacking themselves. Usually when something broke out, such as a riot ,they would call in the police or the militia to suppress the riot. The police or militia isn't the upper class but working class themselves that trying to step over the lower class but which are people in the same class. The police force or militia are like any other working class person, they are on a job, trying to provide for their family, trying to do what ever it takes to keep their job, and to keep their family away from hunger or being homeless.This really makes me think about all the riots that have happened or will happen , that it just a clash between the working class or among themselves. Rarely you will see a rich person or a person of higher class that  would be on the streets rioting with other rich people to suppress the lower class that are going against them.This really grabs my attention because when the people went to riot for change, weren't they just hurting people that were in the same position as them?