or more precisely, mediocre

"the class" today is hardly measured, in the sense we are speaking of, by net worth

sure, net worth is indicator of higher social status, but not necessarily class in traditional sense

since people who rule today are middle class people par excellence

it's their spiritual background and their upbringing

everything today is concieved in middle class environment, and drifting away from it demands a certain "leap of faith'

quite right

most of the people who you refer to as an example of "elevated" middle class people, are in fact people who had experience at one moment or another, a sudden and unexpected illumination of a sort

after which they couldn't take middle class society seriously, without bursting into laughter

I don't mean middle class as a mentality

there is the working class, the elites/rulers/nobles/theocrats

and everything in between

the in betweeners are the engine of nearly all innovation

mentalities change

what we pejoratively call "middle class" was not always so

though this in between caste was

working class people today are a demographic who most staunchly atempts to emulate middle class life and norms

sure, that's how they all work

the working class aspires to the middle class, the middle class aspires to the top

they usually stumble through the act, embarass themselves, but still "succeed" due to their eagerness to conform

the middle class can mobilize the working class against elites

for this purpose

and popular revolutions nowadays are usually in that vein, e.g. marxism

which is mobilization of the working class via the biggest middle class weapon

ideas

correct, but the top, in a sense of a spiritual right of passage, doesn't exist

it's been rejected, but I dont think it can ever be destroyed

it's middle class people, with completely unchanged worldview, with more money and social power

consider this

yeah, pretty much

the middle class rule

elite today gathers in Masonic lodges, which are epitomical middle-class brotherhoods

the "elite" nowadays are in a sense

middle class meritocracy

get big, get rich, and you are in

there is another, occult element here I believe

a hidden hand

but I guess that's not relevant to this particular exchange

obviously, middle class, just as every group there is on the planet, must operate using the same logic, that is, making an interest group within and denying resources or power to the outsiders

I dont think that is a valuable way of understanding the middle class, human connection is much lower level than this

but because society is perfectly levelled, is why we have this radical dystopia - the elite, or 1%