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Sapphire

Blue collared workers work to pay the bills

White collared workers work so they're not blue

The first, harbor of all our social ills

Second, enforcers of what is taboo

Day will arrive when our Lord comes again

Redeeming blues through Saturnalia

No more wanting, no more a social plan

All clothed with same Sapphired regalia

Time is as fleeting as the passions are

While future’s as sure as where our hope lies

In present, then, we each must work so hard

Ensuring passions don’t our hope belie

Until day our bridegroom comes to redeem

We mortify our sin, fasting unseen

[Mt. 6:16-18] Much myth lies around blue sapphires. I honed in on its representation of royalty and social harmony.

I know it’s a generality that blue collared workers make less than white collared workers, and that they work to scrape by. I know because I was a “professional teacher,” and I made less than a number of other lucrative professions like welders, mechanics, etc. I am not at all making a value difference, but a general observation. Blue collared workers tend to be looked down upon because they are generally working to pay rent, food, electricity, etc. Often times the less well-off live more day to day. On the flip side, the white collared workers work to survive as well, but in a different way. The white collared workers who are able to look beyond today recognize that life is vain. As such, they work and work in order to obtain more money, and through money, more things. They work to keep the blues away. This both means that they work to maintain their status and not become blue collared, but even more so, it means they work in order not to become depressed and suicidal. But this materialism is just a vain pursuit meant to numb the pain. 

Again, my slight on the blue collared isn’t my own position, but from the perspective of the elite. The elite believe that the poor and lower class are where social ills are born and raised. We see this by aversions to immigrants, aversions to the poor, aversions to those in particularly lower-class occupations (e.g. fast food), etc. But ironically, it is the white collared, or upper class who gets to define what taboo means. Obviously their definition is self-serving and perpetuates subjugation of others while perpetuating their own status. We can see this in how white collared crimes and individuals are prosecuted, the length of punishment, etc. We can also readily see that the white collared are no more socially grace