The second thing you should know about knowledge is that it’s often not comforting. Knowing things is scary. Understanding how the world works is something incredibly depressing. Seeing the inner working of society will make you see institutionalized racism everywhere. It will show you how misogyny is alive and well. It will show you how all of us who aren’t rich are cogs in a system that’s incredibly oppressive. It will show you that system has been designed to prevent us from moving up on the social ladder. You will learn that privilege is basically the idea that something isn’t a damn
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