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.
Interesting…
Ami
Dave
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