concerning i

The English language is constantly changing, morphing, contradicting itself, getting trapped in its own regulations, evolving, and offending. i believe it to be a useful tool, and is beautiful at times, but it must be stopped. Why? It has taught us self-worship. There is a lot we teach our children about priorities in language. My frusturations lie in the pronoun i. 

That's right. i'm consciously not capitalizing it. You've noticed it for a while now, and if you're a gramatical tightwad like myself then its been irking you for sometime now. You probably have already assessed that i am ignorant, lazy, or annoying- simply from the lack of grammatical conformity. But why must we capitalize i ? Why is the self so important? Why must our rank in sentences be elevated to the status of countries, days of the week... you know God is capitalized, right? 

In Russia they capitalize pronouns You, Your, You're and so on. The other is elevated above the self. That should put our cultural catastrophe  into perspective. i am the most important thing in the English language. i need attention in a sentence structure. i mean, how sad is it that children don't capitilize themselves in a sentence and then get chastized by their teacher and ridiculed by fellow students, but never understand why its so important in the first place?

But can this battle be won in the classroom? Can i really pick and choose my grammar obedience and expect others to understand that a consicous decision is being made? Unfortunately, rather than me demonstrating my opinion of social prioritization being viewed, only the error will be seen. People can't help but notice the problem with i. More attention is drawn to the self than before, only its a flawed self. 

There is still hope though. There is one place that can't be tainted by the socially enforced regulatory fist of standard English grammar- that is, poetry. i will not capitalize i in poetry, and the truly inspired, devoted, analytical reader will understand and hopefully, follow suit. 

 THERE ARE LEGITIMATE REASONS FOR FRUSTURATION, CONCERN, AND ULTIMATE DESIRE TO ABANDON WRITTEN LANGUAGE.