In ordert to find arguments for or against the poem "The unkown citizen" by Adalbert Wafling being far fetched or even prophetic, we must first give a short overview about what the topic of this poem is.
The uknown citizens topic is about a random citizen who is not publically well known and is mediocre to his or her bones.
Due to the mediocreness of the unkown citizen he stays unkown for all of his life. Which makes him universal and probably applying to many people.
While we could agree or disagree on finer nuances of the poem being far fetched or prothetic, our task is to look at the general topic of the poem.
Far fetched means that the topic in question is not relating to current circumstances or not not causally related to the topic.
Prophetic on the other hand means not relating to current circumstances but and promisingly so for future circumstances.
As those two have some base in common but are not identical we must argue the cases indipendantly.
Our society as a whole can sociologically always be broken down to a norm where people deviate from the mean more or less. The fact is that 66% of the population are always in or around the mean of the popullation (one standard deviation).
Relating to our current social circumstances the topic of a mediocre citizen thus cannot be far fetched by the definition given. Since 66% of the population will usually not stick out in a specific way. While this does not mean that the individual is not unique in a good way, it means that relating to our country as a whole they are unkown and do not play a role that is above a significant level.
Everyone however is unique and every person will have some area they are noticeable and above or below the mean. While however this is good for the individual and gives every person his sticky points as well as his talents it is still nothing out of the ordinary.
Seeing this we must regard the poem by schwafelbart not as far fetched but as very spot on description of a majority of our population.
On the subject of the peom maybe being described as prophetic we have allready concluded that it is currently relating to our modern society.
We must therefore disregard the peom as prophetic.
The question of will there be a different society in the future however remains.
Will society change in a way where there are no more unkown individuals?
I personally think it will not. There is simply too many humans on this planet for everyone to be noticeable to the society as a whole.
However that should not be a bad or disspiriting outlook.
Because the everyday hero, the husband and the father of 5 children, the person who does your paperwork in the office and who buys your goods in the store does play a role for those people who are near to him. He is a very important person to his wife a very important person to his 5 children and to the people who relay on him to do certain work for them.
Only because a person is not significantly distinct to society it does not mean he is not important to other persons in his life.
Mediocreness is not a bad thing. And the peom has the undertone as if it was.
Society only works with many mediocre people. We cannot imagine a world where there is only famous people around. Our praise and our focus as a society however is concentrated on those outstanding individuals.
That seems a point worthy of discussion and further exploration but is not subject the task at hand.
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