Why Does Everyone Want To Be Oppressed?

When I was talking to left-wing students

and they were talking about the

oppressive nature of the elite, I

thought you're the elite. Yeah. Like you

might be on the junior end of it, but

the fact that you're at Harvard means

you're already a member of that club. If

you earn more than 30 grand a year, I

think you're in the top 1% in the world.

There's that as well, which puts

everyone in the West in that elite

position. Well, yes, fair enough. But

certainly the case for students at

highquality universities. And I thought,

well, what's driving their

identification with the oppressed? And

the answer is, there's never enough for

someone who's narcissistic. And so, if

Harvard opens its doors to you, and now

you're a member of the elite, you might

say, well, you could rejoice at that

gift. Or you could say, that's not

enough for me. I want all the privileges

of the elite and all the moral cache

that goes toward the oppressed. So now

I'm an ally of the oppressed.