"Middle Classism" is a particularly American neurosis based on the idealization that a segment of society could isolate it artificially from the rest of not only the world but from nature itself. It is the suburban conformity of automated lifestyles and ideology that inserts buffers from the discord of politics, religion, and cultures. It is a status quo, a socially thermodynamic medium of regulated propriety and a stagnation of artistry and a tempering of all native desires. It is an equilibration and condensation of humanity into a shell of existence; it is the original homeland security, it signifies that ultimate sacrifice of life, originality, the mystical and the ecstatic for the comfort and security and the purported bulwarks to hold against fear. It is abstaining from care for the poor, the racism, the militarism; it abdicates responsibilities for these even though its very existence is built within and protected by these very elements. It is a form of white privilege. It is a belief that the end of civilization has arrived. It accepts as a universal truth that some must be the ultra-rich and ultra powerful and that many must suffer in poverty, but that divine provenance has provided that the true believers and worthy will reside safely and contentedly in the center. It is the extension of the conquest of America, and one which hides from the fact that the party ultimately has to end, that growth is not sustainable, and that karmic bills and reparations are due. It is an odious stagnancy; a swamp. The work of building civilization will and must continue. The middle class is broken; it no longer exists.
