Privilege: Introduction

The Exploding Head is properly back, with an episode that is not a summary of my previous season! I start Season Two by introducing a topic on which I did a tiny personal project. You will hear what that is exactly in my upcoming episodes to which I have invited some guests! The topic of this project is a potentially controversial one: privilege. In this episode, I present to you one of the definitions of privilege that I really like - and, yes, give some examples that are of different levels of weirdness. I also identify what we should be conscious about so our sense of privilege doesn't prevent us from speaking out or taking a different action. Lastly, I allow myself to go down the path of psychology (which sounds a bit like a crossover with my other podcast, Investigative Selfism, which is on personal development and mental health) and talk about what Brené Brown calls 'comparative suffering'. In short, it's terrible for us. Let's not do that. I hope you enjoy this episode and the potential reflections it brings about!