The Catastrophe of Great Inequity of Wealth

The inequity of wealth is a symptom of disaster.
As the rich continue to get richer, they create icons of desire which those with less wealth try to imitate. Even the rich desire these impossible icons they themselves create, and they have the money to purchase the reality corresponding to the icon and discover it is a fairy tale: I know of someone whose boyfriend bought them a $15,000 bag, and she does not use it because it is too heavy.
The poorer folks never find out the truth that their desires and idolatries are empty; since they do not have wealth, they never find out the lack of foundation of consumer desire.

As the inequity increases, the ability of those with less wealth to consume real items versus dreaming and pretending steadily decreases. In the film Paris is Burning we saw the young men vogueing not merely as women, but as lawyers and Wall Street bankers: icons of wealth and desire of attainment. Even then, these young men were doomed to mimic things forever beyond their grasp as they fell prey to AIDS.

When the point is reached where the Icons beckon but the great mass of people cannot consume, cannot mimic, cannot even pretend to attain the iconic status of wealth and beauty, all the idols will be destroyed again as they always have been in the past.
What we cannot possess, we shall destroy.
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