Analysis Of Earl Shorris As A Weapon In The Hands Of The Restless Poor

“As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor” is a title of an article in a magazine written by Earl Shorris. The article was published to bring insight to the world on the uses of education that is liberal on the poor. The author of this piece, Shorris is a reputable high tutor of political philosophy and humanities at the university. Shorris’s piece of work is one that many people reckon and understand. Illiteracy is one of the major causes of poverty, and consequently, poverty contributes to illiteracy. This piece of work relates to many people because poverty is a situation affecting the livelihood of quite a large number. The audience that Earl was addressing was the poor people in his society and those who had not got a chance to get

Poverty is the situation whereby a person is not able to fend for their families or themselves, hence cannot satisfy their basic needs comfortably. Poverty also according to the context can be described as psychological whereby one lacks the ability to handle life situations in an informed manner. Earl writes that poverty is caused by lack of political influence that is caused by hunger, sickness, and drugs among other factors, however he discovers that lack of education is what causes poverty. Everybody is entitled to gain knowledge, however, poor people do not get it because of choice or because of the lack of money to facilitate it. The main difference between the rich and the poor is, rich people, get educated therefore gain skills to work and make informed decisions while the poor lack education, therefore not able to work and their decisions are invaluable

Poverty is facing a large part of the world and is impacting negatively on many economies. Criminal activities such as theft are caused by poverty as people do not have enough resources to sustain themselves. Also, the state of being poor affects the psychology of an individual, therefore, they lose the ability to make sound decisions, hence engaging in violence or drug abuse to ease their frustrations. The decisions taken because of being poor are consequences of lack of an education and knowledge. I agree with the writer when he says that poverty is lack of political engagement this meaning that the absence of interactions leads to lack of exchange of ideas thus chances of one being more knowledgeable are limited