I was an exchange student in Ukraine in high school and the town I lived in periodically gets shelled now… we live immensely privileged and comfortable lives.
This is not a bad thing, it’s great, but we should try to make everyone else’s life as good instead of hoarding our privileges.
If both of my grandfathers fought in WWII and neither of yours did, my parents are likely to have picked up a lot of latent trauma that yours did not.
I believe the lower classes in this country are less “privileged” for their freedom , on average.
Of course, the more time passes, the smaller this effect.
Probably lower class people have a lot more latent trauma passed through generations.
Living in a warzone affords very little privilege, but likely not none.
i.e. recognize that you are privileged, since others paid the price on your behalf.
Why is it not privilege? What is privilege?
Yes, and benefiting from that -- without having had to fight in those conflicts -- is a privilege.