Amerika

Forgive me for saying this, but the middle class are meddlebunglers. Dilettantes, they swoop into politics to listen to complaints and sob stories, then vote for whatever makes them feel good in the moment, leaving behind massive government overhead and chaotic programs.

They have “education,” for sure, but what did they learn, except what was trending at the time? That is how you make a career in education, so it is what professors teach; they like to view themselves as the peak of humanity, after all.

And then they went out and got jobs, and found that the jobs did the same thing. They taught, informally through colleague discussion, what was relevant and beneficial to that industry, and everything else was forgotten.

Finally the bourgeois middle class treats just about everything as a product. To them, politics is entertainment, and talking about politics is socializing. It is how they show others that they are safe to socialize with, buy from, hire, and interact with.

Ideas to them are adornments. They want to have the best scientific and progressive ideas just to show how independent they are from reality, and how open-minded and powerful they are in accepting things which have nothing to do with how the world works.

Their time-scale is limited to their lifespans. They are not aware of anything before their teenage years, nor concerned with anything after their demise. To them — they are classic individualists — the world exists for them and when they die, it ceases to exist.

A psychology of this nature arises from those who work jobs. They are both freed with income and enslaved through obedience to the boss, water-cooler office politics, so they become revengeful people.

Jobs also breed a certain type of human who is sycophantic in public but a usurper in private. To the average intelligence, this seems like a good way to “get ahead.” (Higher intelligences emphasize practical gains in productivity, resilience, stewardship, or creativity.)

The middle classes live through movies and news articles. Something written in a newspaper, if they agree with the paper, becomes absolute truth like the Bible never had; a movie tells them how people behave and they imitate it.

Much of their socializing involves talking about scenes from movies and television, and repeating lines of dialogue that seemed particularly noteworthy.

For them, almost all activity has a sedative goal. They wish to have a narcotic for pain, so life becomes a series of confrontations with reality that are then buried under homilies or re-telling the story in such a way that everything turns out fine and no one needs to change their thinking.

To this end they endlessly rationalize. If they did not get the big promotion, they tell themselves that “when God closes a door, another opens” and apply for another job that they hate, but they will tell themselves (when they get it) that it was what they always wanted.

Their thought process revolves almost entirely around finding ways to “feel good” by rationalizing the decay as bad. This comes from their origins as shopkeepers, for whom “the customer is always right” and thus, no opinions of their own may be had.

They punish their children for being unsociable, especially if they are right in doing so. The customer is always right. If they are not right, tell a story that explains what they are doing as right, because you need the money.

Maybe they are not the worst social class. The working classes seem alright until you ask their opinions about something complicated; the upper classes are basically in shock at having more than others and spend all their time trying to “prove” they deserve it.

But at the core, there is something rotten about the middle class and its addiction to shopkeeping and jobbing.

Call me a “class traitor” if you want, but my loyalty is to social hierarchy, not a specific social class. We need people competent at every level, doing what they can do best at those levels, instead of an identity that at the end of the day, is opposed to civilization.

Tags: middle class, rationalization