[Funfic] A Tale of Two Titties.
By TFG14VR


Crime in our society is a forgone conclusion, there is always going to be crime in some form; in the presence of honey there will surely be ants. The severity and volume of crimes committed in America, however, is not a forgone conclusion. Other cultures that are on par with our technological and political structures do not, in many cases, suffer the same levels of crime that we do in the United States. Crime in America is the result our competitive, capitalistic economy coupled with a very self-centered mentality that has been exacerbated by the unprecedented success of our economy.

Our society, since the industrial revolution, has become the greatest economic power in the world and we enjoy freedoms that other cultures do not. Political freedoms, social freedoms and economic freedoms. The Conflict theorists believe that there is a limited number of resources available and that conflict arises between the classes for those resources. Karl Marx believed the same thing. He believed that the proletariat would rise up against the bourgeoisie and take over the system creating a Communist government. Thankfully, for the most part, Marx was wrong ...or at least, to an extent. While some countries did fall and give. way to Communism, America has flourished and proved that Capitalism is a superior system. Marxist theory, however, has not been completely discounted. For example, the working class as it rises against the wealthy, as described in THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. A class just as old but much larger than in our fathers' generation is rising up indiscriminately against the other classes, much as the proletariat was theorized to rise against the bourgeoisie.

This criminal class, according to the functionalists, is the result of a break down of the social bonds that keep our society together. Emile Durkheim stated that one problem in industrial societies is the lack of a bond between the people that is required for survival in a pre-industrialized society. The industrialized world breeds separation: According to Existential tenets, man undergoes an alienation from himself, nature, other men and 'god.' In a society were the other man is not a brother, but a competitor, the sense of belonging is destroyed and replaced with a desire of personal prosperity. We are taught to desire this prosperity but we are not always instructed as how to become successful. Some of us are incapable of reaching prosperity in an acceptable manner, and they resort to crime. Robert Merton's Anomie Theory states just that. He says that "...people in the United States are not always provided with culturally approved means necessary to attain these goals." This theory seems to hold true, if someone is living in a ghetto with no job opportunities and has been forced to abandon their education, it is unlikely that they will be successful in any occupation in which they might place themselves. Crime becomes the only solution ...or does it? Crime is, by far, the easiest solution but America has so many social programs that it is almost impossible not to receive some sort of aid ...all that is required is a little searching for it. However, when in the face of receiving a small amount of government money compared to receiving thousands of dollars for fencing a car, many people in this situation would pick the illegal route. In this disattached, industrial society that we live, people are created equal ...when it comes to the census In reality, people are birthed into classes only slightly-less harsh than India's caste system. Unlike the caste system, it is possible to break free from these social classes but it is far from easy. In these classes, according to the lnteractionists, people learn their deviant behavior from what they are taught and what they observe from others. Most people in these classes are too lazy to learn how to break free from the binds of poverty would rather take the easy way out and become criminals.

What about the super criminals, those rare few beings of exceptional power and evil intent? Where do they come from? Usually, it's as simple as an accident involving chemicals. Other times it's a matter of gamma radiation. Sometimes there IS no explanation. Robert Banner's theory states that "Super criminals often lack a strong purpose in life, they may need a social net to fall back on and in its absence, resort to crime. Their minds are often a place of pain, suffering and total anguish. It's often a sick, twisted mirror of our world, with Hellish fire, burning air and no bathrooms. Let's not even get started on the flying monkeys."

In the end it seems that education is the only feasible solution to our problems, We have enough social programs to accommodate the poor, yet many are too stupid to realize that these programs exist. People need to know that they CAN succeed in America, all it requires is work.