- The Great Mediocrity .

This week has been driving me mental thinking about the "great mediocrity" and such. Such as what power does one in the top portion of the pyramid have over those beneath them? The thinkers, the great minds, even the doers exist at the top. So if they are the ones who take the control, start the projects, make a name for themselves, then what are the entitled to regarding the other groups?
On Friday Hayley, Emma, and I participated in the river cleanup led by the janitor (who in fact, McCarthy constantly talks about how he exists on top). While we were going through and getting the garbage from the riverbanks and surrounding areas, we came across many homeless people who happened to be sleeping or just existing where they are used to existing. As we went down the riverbank, we came across this full camp setup, consisting of sleeping bags, sweaters, boxes, and fencing, that was unoccupied at the time that we passed it. The first thing that came to my mind was that someone called that home. All three of us left it, and continued on, leaving it alone, though the janitor proceeded to tear it all down, and throw it into garbage bags to be thrown out. From that perspective, i cant understand his thinking. It's mid-october, the overnight frost is beginning to set in, this is everything that this man has accumulated and obtained in the past bit, and since he decided to go out and do who knows what for however long he was gone, he now only has the clothes that were on his back when he left. What if that man decided to leave that day in search of a job, in search of support, to start his journey to the top of that pyramid? What entitled the janitor to tear down the life that this man may have possibly started to build up in hopes of a better tomorrow? I cant stop thinking of what that man must've thought when he returned to find all of his possession gone. So tomorrow, Hayley and I are going to talk to the janitor to find out his perspective on why it was so important that all of his stuff had to be thrown out. It was supposed to be helping out the community, but for some reason,  felt for that one man, i had hurt the community more than helped it.