PERSPECTIVES
ON CLASS IN MODERN SOCIETY
Class comes in different shapes and sizes, but
is always either noumenal or phenomenal, that is, of
an ethereal or a corporeal nature. There are ‘upper class’ types in the former,
and ‘lower class’ types in the latter, but it is not simply a matter of upper
and lower. Each of these is divisible between what could be called the alpha
and the omega of class, whether in terms of upper-class types
vis-à-vis classless types on the noumenal planes of
space and time, or in terms of lower-class types vis-à-vis middle-class types
on the phenomenal planes of volume and mass.
But that would only apply to the hegemonic
gender, not to their ‘upended’ antigender
counterparts who make the hegemonic sway of the free gender, be it female (and
upper-class/lower-class) or male (and classless/middle-class) possible and
viable. Without anti-classless antimales in antimetaphysics, there would be few if any upper-class
females in metachemistry at the northwest point of
what I like to think of as the intercardinal axial
compass. Similarly, without anti-upperclass antifemales in antimetachemistry,
there would be few if any classless males in metaphysics at the northeast point
of the said compass.
Down below, in the phenomenal and/or corporeal
realms of volume and mass, it is equally fair to say that without
anti-middleclass antimales in antiphysics
(the mass ‘male’ catholic position), there would be
few if any lower-class females in chemistry at the southwest point of the intercardinal axial compass. Similarly, without anti-lowerclass antifemales in antichemistry, there would be few if any middle-class males
in physics at the southeast point of the said compass.
For just as, in the noumenal
realms of space and time (duly divisible between space and anti-time on the one
hand, and time and anti-space on the other), the anti-classless preclude
classless competition for the upper class and, conversely, the anti-upperclass preclude upper-class competition for the
classless, so, in the phenomenal realms of volume and mass (duly divisible
between volume and anti-mass on the one hand, and mass and anti-volume on the
other hand), the anti-middleclass preclude middle-class competition for the
lower class while, conversely, the anti-lowerclass
preclude lower-class competition for the middle-class.
Therefore a polarity axially exists between an
upper-class/anti-classless reality and a middle-class/anti-lowerclass
reality on the one hand, and between a lower-class/anti-middleclass reality and
a classless/anti-upperclass reality on the other hand,
the former polarities (subject to modification in terms of strict gender
polarity that undermines the phenomenal hegemonic position) constitutive of
state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axial criteria, the latter polarities (again
subject to modification in terms of strict gender polarity that undermines the
phenomenal hegemonic position) constitutive of
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axial criteria, with, in consequence, a kind
of British/Irish dichotomy between the two axes.
Such, in a nutshell, is how I understand class,
and it is as likely as not that I have the most logically consistent insight
into class as is humanly or, rather, superhumanly possible.