"Nothing Is Right or Wrong, but Thinking Makes It So"

Fredrick Douglas became a prime example, to people's "knowledge," how any human being is able to render themselves above irrational forms of society. Fredrick Douglas, as a slave, was born into a debauched society where experiences and motives create a sustained, as well as an undeveloped mind into a world. His world coming in was all that he knew. Douglas did not have the knowledge of any outside world, instead the one he has never left. His experiences of the un familiar torment to the black race's: work, wrongs or rights, punishments, and deceiving ways were not to his knowledge; they were the way of life to the providence of a more prominent white superior, as I should say. From all the way to the beginning of time; humanity perceives the society they live in from the knowledge they intrigue from the more dominate beings in it. This creates the structure, that has brought upon humanity, that brings people together through: rules, morals, beliefs, ideas, needs, communication, and the willing to create new ideas and expand other forms from consistent and a want for knowledge. Knowledge is a power that evolves into many of things. The act from a more superior culture to know what they can actually do, from their higher way of life and the knowing of diversity and others cultural ways, dehumanize themselves because of the want for greater power. Also they dehumanize a less educated and progressed culture, in their own favor, in order to strip all of the mind for notorious want to a better social status and create work to produce more money for more powerful means.  It is how you receive that knowledge and use it that enhances your true social being through a contributing human way. Douglas explains his role as a slave through the inevitable disregard of human rights. His journey from disgrace and innocence to knowledge gives him different ideologies of the world in able for him to become a major leader and generate a movement to change the way of thinking and believing. Fredrick Douglas shows the discrimination from society, when he becomes of some knowledge, through the difference in Mr. Auld and his own views. Douglas states, "What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn" (Douglass 250). Douglass becomes his own greatness, as he realizes this knowledge of societies disgrace and the shielded ideas to the black people, that motivates him for the purpose to show and educate the wrongs of these people, only if he becomes knowledgeable of "knowledge." He discovers how strong knowledge is when he sees it become a monster within himself from learning all the people's wrongs, they so value, in his world. He demonstrates the agony of being apart of such a world to regretting the knowledge he had learned that turns to hate, despair, cultivation, ect.. During his set back, Douglass states, "I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 254). This reminds me a lot of Frankenstein because the knowledge shows him the monster it can really be from becoming a reconciliation of the bad and hatred that can be seen and become of you that society has created. Douglass's thoughts brought him down in despair from the thinking that nothing could be done to change the social structures that have been engraved. He sees there are others who see as him which creates hope that breaks him out of his realm and as a minority/representative because of his knowledge. His pursuit for better and more will go to any length for the purpose of a change. In order to open the minds of a debauched, humiliated, and disgraced society, that has engraved the ideas of an irrational culture, needs to change the minds from ignorance to the knowledge of just "humanities being" that has created this nation social greatness!