Antipodal Associative Paradigm

Because most of those in the Lower Station must remain in that position, and because the primary motive for all classes of society is the Metaphysical Ideal, they will tend to blame those lower than themselves rather than those above, or the nature of the system itself. Because this class is so large, both the Additory and Subtractive Bases can be contained within its own structure, in what is termed an Inner Hierarchy.

Inner Hierarchy

UNTOUCHABLE CLASS

LOWER STATION

UNTOUCHABLE

LOWER

MIDDLE

UPPER

ELITE

MIDDLE

UPPER MIDDLE

ELITE CLASS

The Lower Station in terms of education has a localized consciousness as opposed to a more international perspective, and tends to be nationalistic, patriotic, loyal to domestic institutions. The Inner Hierarchy is also applicable to the Middle and upper-middle and upper classes as well. Where the upper levels can be invisible to the lower classes the lower levels can be invisible to the upper classes. Nearly all revolutionary uprisings not originating at the top, tend to come out of the Lower Station as nationalistic movements which can be both secular and religious. Examples would be Hitler's Germany, Mao's China or Khomeini's Iran.

UPPER STATION

Opposite to the the Lower Station is the Upper or Upper Middle Class. While the Lower Station does the manual labor, the Upper does the intellectually oriented managing requiring higher degrees of education. This class is comprised of the educators, politicians, managers, higher echelon military, medical and law professionals, cultural artisans and performers. Many of this class act as managers and overseers for the economic assets and interests of the elite. They are more culturally advanced, often cosmopolitan, many times speaking more than one language than the middle class and down.

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