April 11th Reading Journal

I did not see anything relevant to transsexual or transgender topics in this reading, or at least, I was not able to discern anything of the like from the text. I understood the intro part about Socrates wanting to brainwash the current and future generations into something he believed. If it weren't for that this is how society generally follows today, I would say that it isn't fair for one man to dictate the entire mindsets and beings of people to their single idea. They might now even be right. Who are they to decide how people interact and function in society? Perhaps a different approach could work. Perhaps this is why society is loosely framed like this though. I wasn't sure if this was a tale or an actual account of how our idea of how communities members rank relates back to this initial point. 

Ranks don't really make members of the community feel all too great when they're placed at the bottom tiers. Nobody really likes to talk about it. In League of Legends, a online video game, members are ranked in tiers from Bronze to Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, ect, and people in Bronze tiers generally don't like to talk about their position to their friends. Although this is about the functionality of running a society and having more access to decisions, I believe that anyone can be meant to have leadership or certain skills and that people shouldn't be told what they are destined to be stuck with for the rest of their lives. I'm generally annoyed by governments or ruling power because it seems reserved for those who pass the tests of being born to the right family, having money, and/or having charisma. I am aware that this section wasn't just talking about the highest tiers of rulers; it does split the lower and higher classes apart. 

Toward the end of the reading, the author talks about biological determinism, which they define as "a theory of limits" that "takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be". It mentions that there are some individuals, however, that manage to rise from their status through some luck in their biology. Although it isn't explicitly stated, this relates back to the beginning of the reading with Socrates wanting to teach a caste system of ranks upon populations. Perhaps he did a service, but perhaps it was also a possible disservice because people could be "falsely identified as lying within".