"The Whiffenpoof Song" aside, we - the collective "we" - have become a nation of sheep. This can be blamed on corporations, of course; and rightly so. I don't, however, lament the supposed demise of the middle class: I grieve instead for the fatal weakening of the working class.
All that's been written before me here in Alan's Web-log entry is well taken. Indeed, the upper class has all the power in its corner; yet the middle class serves as missionaries for the upper class, showing off its material acquisitions and voting for every right-wing nutter who comes along.
The middle class put Hitler in power; the middle class, since its inception as a by-product of capitalism, has supported every totalitarian regime worldwide; and it continues to do so. These assertions of mine are obviously generalities, but let it be known not every person who struggles to survive on a fixed and/or low income aspires to become middle class - the boss class, the landlord class, the shopkeeper class - because that requires abandonment of ethics and morality.
Voters in middle-class suburbia had better wise up and begin supporting more humane and just candidates for political office, or else they'll end up out in the snow with nothing but the clothes they're wearing - like the Russian middle class of the early 20th century, or the Cambodian middle class of more recent times (minus the snow). I'd prefer there be a peaceful revolution; but a revolution is needed and history shows such phenomena are rarely peaceful.
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'We are poor little lambs who have lost our way....'
Date: 2009-07-07 07:55 pm (UTC)"The Whiffenpoof Song" aside, we - the collective "we" - have become a nation of sheep. This can be blamed on corporations, of course; and rightly so. I don't, however, lament the supposed demise of the middle class: I grieve instead for the fatal weakening of the working class.
All that's been written before me here in Alan's Web-log entry is well taken. Indeed, the upper class has all the power in its corner; yet the middle class serves as missionaries for the upper class, showing off its material acquisitions and voting for every right-wing nutter who comes along.
The middle class put Hitler in power; the middle class, since its inception as a by-product of capitalism, has supported every totalitarian regime worldwide; and it continues to do so. These assertions of mine are obviously generalities, but let it be known not every person who struggles to survive on a fixed and/or low income aspires to become middle class - the boss class, the landlord class, the shopkeeper class - because that requires abandonment of ethics and morality.
Voters in middle-class suburbia had better wise up and begin supporting more humane and just candidates for political office, or else they'll end up out in the snow with nothing but the clothes they're wearing - like the Russian middle class of the early 20th century, or the Cambodian middle class of more recent times (minus the snow). I'd prefer there be a peaceful revolution; but a revolution is needed and history shows such phenomena are rarely peaceful.
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