The social impact of envy and enmity, singly and in combination, is to reinforce the dominant values and practices that cause and perpetuate oppression in the first place. Envy and enmity keep the disprivileged and weak chained to the dominant order—even when they succeed in toppling it! All too often, of course, they do not want to topple the dominant order; as Bauman says; they “demand the reshuffling of cards, not another game. They do not blame the game, only the stronger hand of the adversary” (216).
