Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of PPD deals with what PPD has to do with us. It starts out talking about how something is always someone’s fault as Johnson puts it “Its hard to believe that sexism only exist because men are sexist”(Johnson 77) this showing how people think when they think individuals , but, he goes on to say that individuality make you “blind” to the views of privilege, which is true. “Privilege has nothing to do with individuals, only with the categories that you wind up in. It goes on to talk about the individuals that are in the social systems, the chart they show basically is showing that the more we get into the system the more we lose out individuality, He later uses the game monopoly as a way to show the choices we make in the in the long run; how we choose the things that happen to us. The system helps us as we help the sys them as individuals. If we think that there are not social classes then we are just kidding ourselves.

I can understand what Johnson is getting at here but it leads me to think what would happen to the world if everyone was an individual? Since we contribute to the system almost unconsciously, it would seem that society would crash, like in a game of monopoly. If you don’t have the all of a certain group your whole strategy can break. I think that we do need the system; it has gotten us this far and individuality dose make you blind to the fact that there is privilege in this world, that means that you can get away from it no matter what you do. On the other hand, you need individuals in the world if everyone acted the same way all the time then there would be no need for privilege but at the same time to much individuality you cannot see the privilege line and things get confusing. The whole monopoly thing makes sense because if you have a system of the same properties then you make a profit, but if you just have indivdial pices, you stand to lose. You can say that this is more so a way of assimilating people into thinking the same way but you can be an individual and be in the system. This is the way that we have so many successful businesses in the world today.