The Survival Matrix

The society that we live in, whether you like it or not, follow the same jungle rules as in the wild: Survival for the fittest. But since we are socially intelligent animals, the rules are just executed more intelligently thus to some simplifying their lives while to others making the life more difficult to utmost unbearable. So many factors contribute to the successes or failures of our individual lives which include:

• Hard work
• Luck
• Divine intervention

 

Other factors that also are more of human manipulations of the survival matrix are:

  

• Nepotism
• Favoritism
• Corruption
• Theft
• Etc

How does the survival matrix work? Read on…

In the survival matrix as depicted above, imagine that those circles are people or groups of people, all in a certain level of the society. As you can see, the matrix widens like a pyramid as we move downward and narrows towards the top. This represents the amount of people in various levels of the society.

High class people are very few according to this matrix, middle class are more than high class and more than low class and low class are the most people. Imagining that the circles above exert weight, we will find that the circles in the lowest level bear the most weight! Also try to imagine that the circles are supposed to move either horizontally, diagonally or vertically, the lower you get in the matrix, the more difficult is the movement while the higher you go in the matrix, the easier the movement.

Also notice that for the circle to go to the very top, it must be:

1.       At the right position if it is to move vertically otherwise,

2.        It will have to move horizontally then later move vertically or

3.       It will have to move diagonally.

Notice the figure below.

So you will notice, assuming we are starting from the lowest point, that Vertical Movement makes the distance shorter, moving horizontally then vertically to top may be the longest distance if you happen to begin from the furthest end of the matrix, and moving diagonally cuts across the matrix and assuming you are moving from the furthest end of the matrix, may be shorter or longer depending on your position.

With survival for the fittest, competition is here to stay. Competition comes from all directions. From the matrix above, it is evident that a circle at the bottom has more vertical and horizontal competitors than a circle higher than it. The higher you go, the less the competition on either sides.

Now, this is how this imaginary matrix works.

There are people at the bottom of social matrix, when they try to move upwards, competition is very high, if by whatever means you move higher, competition becomes less and less. Also notice, without the circles at the lower regions of the matrix providing a very powerful base, the circles on top have no strength to remain on top!

Relating this to the current society, the high class people (read the rich), heavily rely on the poor multitudes to remain rich, thus capitalism thrives in favor of them. What is capitalism?  This is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit.

The high class society will do all it can to remain at the top, be either good or bad, while the middle class are also struggling to move to the top, while exerting their weight to the low class society. Thus as the low class society struggle to move upwards, they are bearing the whole weight of the society whether they like it or not. That is the hard truth! Now have you realized how difficult it is for the low class society to ever be high class society citizens? But it is possible!!

There are those who were lucky to be born at the top of the survival matrix, e.g. The current President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, who was born in state house, thus it was easier for him to remain at the top while some people it is out of sheer determination and other factors they reached at the top.

Also notice that vertical movement has limits unless you are at the center or make an effort to go to the center of the matrix, there is a certain level beyond which you will never go beyond.

 
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