ENEMY OF THE ORDINARY

In sociology, the ordinary refers to the regular staff or the fully recognized class or the common people.

“The ordinary” is usually neglected at the time of any distribution of “scarce value” amongst members of the society – for the society in which we belong is structured in classes. The problem of inequality has made it possible for some people to determine the frame value of some people

It is this determinant factor that makes the upper class become the enemy of the ordinary. Those who own the means of production – the labour power – make effective and efficient production thereby determining the parameters of who is who in the society. So the group sharing a common relationship to the means of production could only be considered as the true class.
Because this group of people or class possesses class consciousness, they consciously or unconsciously antagonize the major class and the ordinary in sharing the scarce value and or in determining the cost of their labour.

The fundamental feature of class is economic, that is the person’s position in the economic order plays the major role in fixing his position or place in the society. The economic order is based on the person’s economic life, chances or opportunities so that those whose chances are narrow feel victimized or used for little or nothing by the true class.
When they therefore look at themselves and can not locate their feature in the social or political order. They feel either cheated or victimized. This group or set of class are not well fixed in the economic, social and or political orders.

They also feel that there is a system based policy of which those in the true class use to place them where they now are. The lower class (the ordinary) feels inwardly that he is being victimized by the upper class (the true class), hence the ordinary finds his behavior affected positively or negatively by trying to satisfy his needs in life. This makes the true class the enemy of the ordinary.

Behaviour is caused by striving for the satisfaction of needs in life, when there is no sound policy to ease the strife to satisfy all the needs, the ordinary feels that his enemy – the one above him have side tracked him for their personal benefits. The enemy of the ordinary therefore is he that determines the future of the ordinary.

DEBBIE UBARU