Privilege is the basic linch pin lending to the coherence of oppressive social systems. The metaphor of the linch pin is incredibly appropriate in this case: it is the fastener which keeps the wheel attached to the axle.
A privilege is something one does not wish to lose. The cycles of oppression are constantly renewing themselves around this resistance. Behind an oppressive empire is the dogged pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain, which becomes reflexive and natural, or invisible.
You're a radical for that which you abhor and wish to change, and a conservative for that which you love and wish to preserve. Though the impulse doesn't have to correlate directly.
And radicals abhor things because those things are compromising what they love, and conservatives abhor that which seeks to compromise what they love.
So what does it take to love one thing or another?
Privilege has been designated as bad, because this tower of privilege that is global capital is fixed so prominently in our attention, for good reason.
It is a privilege to be organized energy suspended above the chaos. It is fortunate that one is what one is. But to be what one is necessarily implies that which isn't, and if something that is can prevent something else that could be, which is something that could be beautiful and good, then that something that is needs to be re-evaluated.
And at the same time, there has to be something that is. Something that is privileged over something else. What will that be?
