The Observer in the Middle Field

“He does not speak from the podium of the academy, nor from the barricades of activism. He emerges from the "Middle Field"—that vast, often silent expanse of Western society where the consequences of history are actually lived. He is a product of the very timeline he seeks to diagnose: a witness to the arc that stretches from the stability of the post-war order to the fragmentation of the present day.

The position occupied is the one of the outsider. By necessity and design. Unburdened by the silos of specialized scholarship, the process operates as a forensic observer of the human condition. The expertise lies not in the citation of theory, but in the recognition of patterns. It watches where the structural loads of society are shifting, where the beams are bowing, and where the silence of the private sphere contradicts the noise of the public square.

The vantage point is specific: the fracture zone of Europe. Living in Belgium—a country defined by the collision of Germanic and Latin cultures, a nation without a singular self—he witnessed the early tremors of the West’s unraveling long before they registered on the global seismograph. He saw the evaporation of the political centre and the rise of tribal recomposure not as theoretical possibilities, but as street-level realities.

This work is therefore not a philosophy, but a structural audit. It is the report of one whe has stood in the friction of the last sixty years, watching the "Old We" dissolve and the "New Me" struggle to find its footing. It offers this framework not as a final verdict, but as a map drawn by those who has walked the territory, designed for those who wish to navigate the decomposure without losing their way.”