When a society is willing to forego improving itself because it would rather horde it's advantages among the wealthy then we have reached the point where civilization as a whole is being replaced as a desired future. Here in America too many of the wealthy have disengaged from everyday society and live buffered from those who are not their economic equals. Our society has not only problems with race and religion, but now even more so we have problems with economic integration. The trend to segregate is increasing as civilization becomes less a purpose. Those who have great wealth are secure in their circles of having optimum resources for learning and interacting while the rest of us not so well off are left to fight over the diminishing public advantages previous generations of Americans fought to enable and preserve. The link that kept the wealthy and the rest of us connected is steadfastly being severed. That link being our middle class and the upward mobility the middle class previously celebrated as a necessity. Today, the Republican party has churned it's supporters into a thought process that denies community as an ideal and instead promotes only individualism as a value. Our democracy is being pummeled by a vanguard of greedy capitalists who despite their wisdom in commerce show a true lack of wisdom about history. Many before them have tried to segregate out a subset of humans as elite and then tried to crush the rest who were not in that subset. It is a warrior mentality born from the misguided understanding of survival of the fittest. Our human species is the whole set when discussing survival techniques and all of us are important to that philosophy, not just some of us who mange profit.
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