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Your Selfish Privilege Shows
Looking at inequality — and our stuff — through a realization of human privilege
ROARING RIVERS
Formerly Very Unpopular Strong Opinions by Christyl Rivers
Privilege and position
It’s still very damp, but not raining, in my Pacific Northwest corner. Rain is a luxury, I now see. For most of our lives, we took it for granted.
Living nature seeks to reproduce, so nature will water the world, keep fires suppressed, and allow breathable air.
It’s funny that air — to be able to breathe — is considered a privilege.
We realize that here, indoors, with our air purifier and fans, it really is something that we, those who can, take advantage of having. All the trees and wildlife that died this last summer had no such choice.
Thus, I have come to realize that we who learn of these things through painful lessons are obligated to teach all who take luxury for granted.
Air is a “luxury”, we absolutely need. As is food. And water. Yet, it’s mind-boggling just how much unnecessary luxury most people feel they are truly special enough to be entitled to having. It’s destructive stuff.