privileges Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/privileges/ Professor, writer, politician Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:33:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 privileges Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/privileges/ 32 32 217957751 The History of My Privileges https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2024/the-history-of-my-privileges/ Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:20:39 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=2595 We cannot help thinking of our own lives as uniquely our own, but if we look more closely, we begin to see how much we shared with strangers of our own age and situation. If we could forget for a moment what was singular about our lives and concentrate instead on what we experienced with everyone else, would it be possible to see ourselves in a new light, less self-dramatizing but possibly more truthful?

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