Two ends without a middle....

Minimalists live in the two ends and in the disappearing middle.

Two ends without a middle is NOT a continuum.

The elite and the homeless are bookends to a vanishing middle. This use to be a continuum that stretched from the rich to the poor and back from the poor to the rich; however, this is no longer a cohesive entity [see photo].

The way I tend to think of the disappearing elements of society as existing in a totally different sphere of life to that of the elite [power brokers] and that of the homeless [powerless]. In the photo above the elite is represented by the red circle. In that image the homeless are represented by the blue overlapping circles. The missing middle of society [ordinary folks] is represented by the black spaces.

One way to view this emergent society is as an anarchical entity. This means that the black spaces inside the image formed by the blue and red circles are occupied by different actors to those who live and thrive in the black spaces that lie beyond the limits of the blue circle. The black space is expanding at a rapid rate. The blue circles are expanding at a much slower rate but still expanding not contracting. Meanwhile the red circle is contracting and consolidating.

Perhaps this image of the world.can help put the lie to the notion that the world is divided neatly into left or right partisans. There is no left and right. And so if we continue to use this false dichotomy, of left and right partisans, we will inevitably be overwhelmed by hate, anger, insecurity, and fear.

Today it seems that we all live inside a self-induced trance, or comma, that will dissemble modern society into a small group of "haves" and large mass of "have nots". The result of this transformation will be a society based on equity for almost all. This will occur because if you are born and raised by "have nots" you will be the equal of your peers. And if you are born and raised by "haves" you will be equal to your peers.

Humans are about to make a tragic mistake that will lead to a totalitarian state where power and control is being ceded to a contracting red circle. Humans have tried this approach to social order before and there is no recorded history of those experiments that fills me with confidence that a society with a disappearing middle can ever become a good place to live.

Richard.