Incomplete Thoughts on Privilege and Order
In order for privilege to continue to exist it requires the cooperation of those whose non-privileged status makes privilege possible. Law is the chief means by which this marvelous and absurd co-operation is ensured in modern society. Privilege is the modern equivalent of slave mastery. One cannot be a master without at least one slave. One person’s privilege is another’s disenfranchisement. Privilege is non-corporeal inequality. It shatters the very idea of human nature, if some are privileged, one cannot speak of one humanity, but a heterogeneous humanity of masters and slaves. What universality can there ever be if one group is exploited by another? How can herd and herdsmen be seen as one, or see each other as of the same species?
Well burrowed, old mole! 