"p/s.-If you dont feel like you belong in the class dont bother coming. You know damn well who you are =]"
On a very superficial level, we all know who the persona is addressing. But when you take a step back and think, there's more than what it is initially thought to imply.
The aforementioned statement is multi-layered and contain multiple assumptions, some conditional upon others. First, the idea of "who you are". The persona asserts that whoever "don't feel like you belong" is in fact well aware of the fact. While it can also be interpreted that the persona is demanding a pledge of allegiance of his classmates to the cause of the class, in an examination of one's identity and belonging to the class, we can dismiss this possibility because of the sheer simplicity and lack of sophistication that the aforementioned persona has demonstrated throughout his entire life, to date.
As such, it can thus be concluded that the persona does not write what he means to say. He is not requesting for an examination of one's identity, but rather for specific people whom he deems as not belonging to the class to stay away. He is passing a judgement and imposing it on others.
What he really means to say is "Those who in my obnoxious opinion do not belong to the class and do know the above fact, please stay away."
There is also a need to examine, from a personal perspective of an individual, what does it mean to "belong in the class". What is the criterion to consider oneself "belong(ing) in the class"? Is it the number of times one has sit with the class during meals? This would automatically discount half the class from belonging to the class, with the number of times a certain group of people sit with "the class" needing less than 2 hands to count. But this then begs the question of with whom does one sit with for one to be considered as "sitting with the class"? Can any one person or clique lay claim to being "the class", around which the rest of the class must revolve around or risk "getting disowned" by the persona? Is the persona thus addressing himself in this case, and that he is not as part of this class as he so possibly delusionally believe and thus assume?
Or is being part of the class something like the number of times one actually turns up for class, with the higher the number, the more belonged the individual is? If that is the case, this author would yet again not be guilty of the assertion that the persona makes.
It could also be a matter of which clique does the individual belong to, acting on the assumption that some cliques belong, while some don't. in most cases, all cliques belong to the class, but to follow on as such with the argument would be committing the fallacy of begging the question. Is it thus true that some cliques belong while others don't? It would very much depend upon the ethos and the modus operandi of the clique itself, which is dependent on other factors, and as such cannot be the most important factor.
The number of possible criterion will go on ad nauseam, and we would be no closer to the answer than the sky is to heaven. Because a definitive answer cannot be found, this author is thus forced to conclude that there can be no definite, rational way of judging whether someone belongs to the class or not. As such, the assertion is fundamentally flawed and invalid.
The idea of the persona actually believing he is in a position to determine who belongs in a class is preposterous and ridiculous in equal measure. What does he know about belonging to a class? This author believes that on the basis of the life-changing experience that he has undergone in the past 2 years, he is in a far superior position than most people, including but not limited to the persona, in understanding the idea of belonging to the class. It is indeed tragic that a minuscule class of 17 has so many fragments as compared to other classes of bigger proportions, and when an identity does not exist, neither can the belonging to a class.
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