Lost

[matrixmann]

The bus stop turns into the youth club...
First love, first drink, maybe even first time getting physical. And lots of friends.
What has modern society to offer to its youngsters?
Living in sterile, mold-contamined, pimped up flats, celebrating their weekends in used up buildings whose purpose they know at the highest from when they were kids, offered consumer goods which they can never pay, jobs that don't exist and promises that never come into effect. On top, bags of clothes manifactured in the third world which they can cut and rearrange to show how run-down they are, and ugly hair-cuts which make them appear like they have some sort of problems.
Education somewhat is an alien concept, both in the way of knowledge about the world and emotional development.
They get handed a lot of toys and tools to get paid the time their parents haven't spend with them, but can't make up for the deep nothing they perceive.
Sold out worlds, they long for destruction, for the destination that remains for when there's no task for you or your body is plagued by diseases. Diseases the parents thought about in their selfishness "they will be able to get along with that". And they keep wondering why these kids in their selfishness for exstasy beget another aimless generation of kids accidently...
On the other hand, education in the form of learning in excess for those who can pay for it. Planning of futures until the age of 40, orchestrated and without a doubt that anything can come in between this. No guess of what poverty means, what deprivations means, not even that it exists at all or what life-threatening circumstances could be. A bubble which nothing goes wrong within.
In the end, the planning also reveals its shallowness: Getting education, getting jobs, founding families, reproduce, buying houses, buying cars - running around and following the established role model, without a thought for a deeper meaning, just as trying to get drunk and loitering around in derelict houses and on the streets. It's about running away and clouding your mind.
The middle class youngsters ignore in their planning, that their kids are going to have to fight even harder for getting jobs as there is limitation in this, so it is also done in a manner of feeding your ego, numbing your mind to prevent to understand something.
Whereas the kids which grow up in poverty rather get their kids unvoluntarily and suddenly start to get those dreams of a idyllic world that isn't reachable for them. If they do not turn out in the end to abandon them, to show them the true face of what their existence already is: Superfluous.

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[red-child.livejournal.com]

What I hear from people about how "wonderful" and "over with" the poverty of Germany became after the wall was torn down... I don't know that they'd even believe things are this way. They'd probably just pass it off; "every country has its problems" or "there are poor people in every part of the world". I know some who live in poverty... or some who have been in troublesome situations throughout life; they would be the most likely to be understanding.
I'm sorry things are this way.

I think you have told me too much, saying it is for "security reasons". Now my mind is tumbling around all sorts of imaginings. I promise: I will try to contain myself! You may always 'slap me on the wrist' if I ask what I shouldn't have.

Thank you for an interpretation that teaches me. I've seen/read this as a problem often, in other circumstances, the pattern may be seen as identical under certain forms of scrutiny.
Humans keep segregating themselves, and it keeps making problems. Do you think there is a way for both this 'segregation' and a sense of 'equality' to coexist?

[matrixmann]

Lemme say this with certainty: Don't believe anything in the West that is told about the German reunification. It's just plain the version of the story of the one who considers himself as the "winner" of the Cold War. There's less true than wrong in these stories.
I don't have much to do with the East-West-past thing over here, but I get that from hearing peoples's stories and from doing quick history researches on things that I don't know anything about.
The East was less poor than West Germany and the rest of the Western international companions always make the people believe.
You remember that one entry about me saying "if you do a revolution, just keep in mind: all you know right now is over and done then. you lose your comfortable live, your toys, your wares - anything that comes from the big capitalistic West. Be prepared for deprivation if you really wanna do this."?
That's exactly what they had to face. A currency which is internationally accepted only under its real value, artificially set on a low value, banks which don't want to give them credits (because a certain elite doesn't want such a project to survive), wares you have to produce yourself of you got none (no such endless importing from abroad for penny prices), wars starting in the countries you want to make trade partnerships with and then the overall political agitation against you and the advertising to lure your skilled worker people away out of your territory.
The current order of the West only can exist because it exploits other countries and people, pays them under their value, brings the governments into power which they want to have sitting there, because they print their own money if they are in a crisis, and because the banks still loan billions to them even though rationally one must already think "you can't give them any more money, they never gonna pay it off - this even ruins your bank because of uncovered loans".
Take some of these away or even all, the (former: industrialized) West is just also a poor place to live in and only compares to the third world.

The school thing

[matrixmann]

I don't know if it has to do with simple segregation.
Well, the local bourgeoisie sends its kids to the school with the highest graduation achievable because they want to keep a certain status in society. Also, often enough, to find somebody who takes over their business once they grow old.
They do this - I don't know, if you can say "less caring about whether their child is able to make that" or "just to make sure their kid receives the best possibilities in life", which a graduation defintely is which enables you to study at university.
Maybe you know it somewhere from practice, people which only have a secondary school leaving certificate themselves sending their kids to the same school with the same educational qualification because they think "this has been enough for me to get along in life, so it will be enough for you too". Even though the kid could do better than this. Or it would be better for it to start there because who knows what happens? Maybe he even makes it to graduation and more doors stand open to it in life.
On another hand, and this is something I can understand, if you try for Abitur, financial costs that come with that are sure higher than only 10-classes-school. That's because of school trips that take longer than a day. A trip to Weimar, London or whatever - people which are not that rich need to save for this. Actually, otherwise it maybe would be their own family vacation.
You need to know if you want to put yourself in such situations or not. If you got 2 kids that try for that graduation, you gonna experience that twice.
Maybe a lot of people also fear this strongly and that for they don't let their kids go to school where they try for Abitur.
10-classes-school - if the kid even makes it to the 10th, these days they got that school form pretty much worked down by putting it together with those from the 9-classes-school; often enough you only have one class in the 10th school year - only sees you until you turn 16 or 17 (if you make it without ever needing to repeat a year). With under 18, it's a lot more harder with travelling abroad as you legally cannot fully make all decisions by yourself. So - none of that taking place.

On another hand I also must say: Education is a matter of the federal states. Each one can design it that way that it wants. You have like 16 (little or more ) different school education systems.
In some federal states it may be more possible because more poor people generally live there, in others it may be even more like "only snobs and rich kids have Abitur graduation".
This also surely comes into play.