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%

and the rest

the undifferentiated mass of people who have no power, and above all, no control

that much I agree with

the true nihilistic meritocracy

so the reason soviet union failed, and progressivism persisted

is because making everyone a worker ceased being such a feasible option

self chosen rather than top down damnation

instead, a middle class alternative won, which attempts to make everyone a citizen

a consumer, sure

Christianity is good for the middle class

and good full stop