Blogcast: On protection and vulnerability

The other day, one of my clients admitted he was afraid he felt vulnerable and defenseless in the event armed robbers invaded his property. When he said this, I thought about the execution of the nobility during the French Revolution, the Bolshevik slaughter of the Romanov family, and the hushed up murder of the 84-year-old widow of the painter Wassily Kandinsky in Gstaad. In our times, I have to admit that during the days of the George Floyd violence, I set my burglar alarm at night and was on the verge of buying a gun, which a friend in Seattle ended up doing. Visible wealth makes you a target. The client I mention above appears modest on the outside, but he does live on a large property, which is in itself a sign of wealth....   A narrated essay from The Pressures of Privilege. Subscribe for more essays and reflections: https://dianaoehrli.substack.com/subscribe