A Pedagogy of the Privileged

“False Expectations Appearing Real”

Anxiety left unprocessed turns itself into fear…

You see, there’s this ignorantly unnecessary fear stemming from a presupposed fallacy that says, “In order to get by we need to make sure we keep others down…”

Again, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In today’s self-centered, superficial culture of individualism we seem to find pleasure (happiness) in “defeating” or being held above others.

It’s the problem of our definition of winning. It infers this idea that you only have worth if you’re “better than…”

“The more stuff we have the more value we then possess”

This notion is pedagogically subversive.

Seeing celebrities glamorous lives. Watching rappers with gold everything, in front of their mansion, “making it rain,” all while standing on one of their eight Bentleys.

I mean, from childhood soccer all the way to getting an MBA from Wharton we’re taught in one way or another, the harder you work and the more you produce then, the more value and esteem you’ll receive.

This subversive form of “pedagogy” makes me think, wonder, and question whether or not greed is innately given or if it’s simply a learned behavior.