Social Darwinism

After discussions a couple days ago about Detroit in my friend Dion's blog and after a class of note taking in A.P. Euro today, i cam to thinking about Darwin, and Social Darwinism.

Have you ever wondered about the social class of our world and how you can apply Darwin's theory of our social class. For those of you who don't know, Darwin's main theory was "the survival of the fitest". He says that the socially lower class are poor because they are not fit to survive. But have you ever wondered of it is "us" that make them unfit to survive. There are so many things we could do to help them but we don't. We say we try, and we run charities, but most of the money from those charities goes to the government as opposed the cause they were directed to.

In, my opinion we are afraid to help them because we may have to compromise our position and compromise out social standing. We worry what other people may think instead of doing the noble thing. We are afraid of what people will think if we travel to the inner city or if we leave the country for a "stupid cause". I know I'm not perfect, and i know that i am guilty of this aswell, and i have decieded to try and find a away to help these people in a way that i am able.