http://blog.spreadshirt.net/uk/2006/05/23/equals-four/ This is the Spreadshirt UK weblog. T-shirts, fashion, style, current events and more. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.spreadshirt.net/uk/2006/05/23/equals-four/#comment-102 The Spreadshirt Blog for Shop Partners » Blog Archive » more noblesse Mon, 29 May 2006 17:09:34 +0000 http://blog.spreadshirt.net/uk/2006/05/23/equals-four/#comment-102 [...] This weekend I read Russell Bank’s The Darling which is, among other things, about the wealthy trying to figure out how to do something good. There was this little quote, and I thought of last week: My mother always viewed my political commitment the same as she viewed her own, as noblesse oblige, as a modest way of acknowledging that one had only by accident acquired social and financial privilege. It wasn’t that the poor and downtrodden were exploited; they were merely less fortunate. In that way, on avoided contending with any self-incriminating guilt and felt free not to surrender one’s privilege. [...] [...] This weekend I read Russell Bank’s The Darling which is, among other things, about the wealthy trying to figure out how to do something good. There was this little quote, and I thought of last week: My mother always viewed my political commitment the same as she viewed her own, as noblesse oblige, as a modest way of acknowledging that one had only by accident acquired social and financial privilege. It wasn’t that the poor and downtrodden were exploited; they were merely less fortunate. In that way, on avoided contending with any self-incriminating guilt and felt free not to surrender one’s privilege. [...]

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