Reply #83: I have reasoned that way in the past...

[arendt]

that the middle class is the bulwark of society, because:

the rich don't need an education - they have success handed to them.

the poor can't afford an education, and besides, it doesn't gain anything in a society where the good jobs are hereditary.

So, if you destroy the middle, you destroy the society. The middle is, in chaos theory terms, "the edge of chaos" - the most flexible and evolving part of the society, where all the innovation happens. The rich are "frozen" in their reactionary greed. The poor are in incessant anarchy, competing desperately to stay alive.

Yeah, I agree with all you said about where the NeoCons want to take us.

arendt