Written by Mathew Naismith
Seen as I am conditioned to a foreground reality or environment, as in a western civilisation, I can speak from actual foreground humanity experiences.
As is known, the western mind thinks and sees through a foreground reality as the eastern mind thinks more through a background reality. To get a better perspective of this think in these terms, that the western mind set individualism is of the foreground reality and the eastern mind set of collectivism is of the background reality.
“Generally speaking - there are many exceptions - people in the West tend to be more individualist, and people from Asian countries like India, Japan or China tend to be more collectivist. “
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways
There is also a middle ground, a reality that is of both foreground and background realities. It is like in photography, were a good photographer will take note of not just the foreground and background but the middle ground as well. Certain photo shots, like a photo of a model, are focusing primarily on the foreground reality, where a photo shot of the sunset is primarily focused on the background reality. A good photographer will take note of the middle ground, if applicable, in both cases.
I look at it like this. Like a good photographer, a spiritual minded persons of wisdom will take note of the foreground, background and middle ground simultaneously. In an existence of extreme foreground and background created realities, this practice of also focusing on the middle ground reality, the adjoining reality to foreground and background realities, is not easy to focus on as you would expect. Ever wonder where wisdom has vanished to in relation to humanity, in as existence of extreme realities!!
In western countries, the middle income earner is dramatically shrinking, while in eastern countries middle income earners are on the rise. The biggest tax contributes to the collective is being eroded away in western countries!! The present homeless problem in the west is representative of the background, a background created by people primarily focused on the foreground, individualism. I am not saying that this only happens in western countries either, just that it is presently occurring in the west on quite a massive scale. Once any reality or society is governed by people primarily focused on the foreground, individualism, homeless people are sure to be a byproduct of this kind of self-centred reality. Be it an extreme of foreground or back ground realities, primarily focusing on individualism or collectivism, homelessness and the lack of middle income earners is sure to follow.
So the rise of middle income earners in the west in the past was a wise move by the western mind, the focusing on the middle ground as well!! Well, no. Who did this middle income earner reality serve the most? The very same people who created a reality of middle income earners. At no time did the middle income earner serve the collective, without primarily serving the individualism within society/humanity, the people primarily focused on the foreground. The foreground is all about what you can get out of society, not what you can give society.
Now imagine a society or humanity that is primarily focused on the middle ground, a reality that adjoins both foreground and background realities!! In other words a reality that is created on the back of wisdom, a middle ground existence.
