VI. ‘The Rich’ And ‘The Poor’ - Built It In Order To Destroy Family
VI. ‘The Rich’ And ‘The Poor’
While Engineer desired to destroy the family, he also planned to destroy the use of two common phrases ‘the rich’ and ‘the poor’ and the cancerous social structure described by and enforced by these phrases. ‘The rich’ and ‘the poor’ are two of the most commonly used phrases in the city as well as in the country. They not only describe the social structure but also they reinforce it. Engineer despised these two phrases because they only made the society anti-progressive. Marx saw ‘bourgeoisies’ and ‘proletariats’ in 19th century Europe, but he analyzed the society and extrapolated two classes. But, here, in this city, two-class society is a given condition and anyone hardly feels disgust or unbearable vileness as he/she speaks these phrases. The class society is an acceptance like the acceptance of the fact that the sun comes up from the east.
This class society compartmentalizes the society, and it also has a direct implication to the sanitation condition of the city. Specifically, cleanup is assigned to a part of the lower class and it is compartmentalized; in other words, the rest do not bother about the sanitation at all. Upper class, for example, do not clean their own bathrooms; they never even sweep or polish floors in their entire lifetime. As a result, almost entire population does not make any effort at all to make any places clean or less dirty. For instance, a typical office building has no trashcans in it; occupants just throw away garbage in isles. There are no trashcans on streets, either, and they just throw garbage wherever they feel like or, what is worse, throw them into sewages and drainages. Collective action of 15 million city residents creates a massive pollution. Behavior of those who do cleanup is no better unfortunately because it follows the behavior of the majority, i.e., not paying any attention to the over all sanitation condition.
