I had an epiphany this week about my blog. Recently, I have not been able to focus. This changed, though, when I realized the breadth of my mission here. The idea behind khakified is not as narrow a subject as I had originally thought. Oftentimes, I can get caught up in the lower class or peace as my subject, and certainly, this is a major part of my blog; however, the khakified syndrome, this distinct feeling of invisibility, also applies to the middle-class. As I started thinking, it occurred to me that middle-class men and women are normally forgotten about. More than that, though, they are okay with this. So long as their values are not threatened, so long as their lifestyles are not likely to change, they do not and will not speak up. For this, my blog also encompasses those in the middle-class who wish to speak up, but are afraid to do so.
The majority of the middle class suffers from the syndrome of khakified. They put up with miserable jobs and give up any chance to enjoy life just to try and ensure the safety of not sinking further in the socioeconomic classes. Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity was, “doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. There is a lot of insanity involved with this boring routine of doing things over and over again. But these people are not expecting different results. In fact, they want the same results. A feeling of invisibility and even more, a lack of action on their part, makes them incapable to stand on their own for justice, both for themselves and for others. It seems that the middle class is more susceptible to being khakified than the lower classes. The government also helps to create this mess. It is true that they spend their time addressing needs for either the upper or lower class, but rarely the middle.
In the end, so long as there is a voice that speaks for this large part of American society, progress can help lead to major change. The middle class is khakified, but hopefully this blog will be able to produce a spark that turns into a fire.
