The Pantaloon : The Plight Of Privilege : Brother Wagwit 

The Pantaloon
Edited by Brother Wagwit
Earlyish in the 21st Century

The Plight Of Privilege

Privilege is, well, a privilege. It’s that simple.

Real privilege does not have a sense of entitlement. Privilege is unaware of itself, it is self-effacing. It just is, otherwise it would not be privilege. We all know people who go through life with an elevated sense of entitlement, they are selfishly self-aware and push this on others. Entitled people are not truly privileged, they are wannabes. Though it’s best to just let them wannabe at will, sometimes it’s necessary to call them on their delusions when showing an exuberant pretense to privilege. It’s always all about the showing.

Some people are born to privilege and some find or make their own way to privilege. How you get there is not as important as how you get to stay there. It does not matter if you were born into privilege or made yourself into it, because there is no merit in privilege. Real privilege is like Zen, you can’t strive for it, and if you become aware of it or try to gain from it, you lose it. In biblical terms, privilege is like Adam and Eve in Paradise. When the snake and the apple show up, it’s curtains for privilege and showtime for entitlement.

Privilege is lost by cashing in on it, say with a TV show, an acting career, a podcast; or by trying to cut in line to get somewhere first; or by talking loudly about extensive personal freedoms and not owing anything to anyone. Many just make up things to hear themselves talk, for show, because in their minds it’s a privilege for anyone else to hear what they have to say. In the end, having discarded privilege for gain, they become self-entitled wannabes who cry-themselves-a-river and whine-on-the-yacht, and make us hear about it on their social media feeds.

Privilege, being impersonal and unattended to, has no reason for crying or whining. Privilege does not advertise. Sometimes we find out about privilege when those who are close to privilege offer a glimpse of it. But we never hear from privilege directly. And if we do, it’s the beginning of the end for that particular privilege, and the beginning of a life of entitlement. Many would like to be associated with privilege, but that being highly improbable, they settle for association with entitlement, trickle-down entitlement.

Even though it’s fashionable to relinquish privilege to boost common-man cred, the entitled can’t disavow privilege, they don’t have it to begin with. Only privilege can discount privilege, if privilege is foolish enough to do so. Unsurprisingly, every day we learn that there are fools aplenty.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly and good luck with that.