Who Were the Sea Peoples?

Vilfredo Pareto , after being a reformer interested in abolishing privilege for some time, finally realized that efforts at abolishing privilege never seemed to actually do so: they merely ensconced the leadership of that movement to abolish privilege themselves in positions of privilege. He called this "the circulation of the elites." So let's say, as some friends of this blog wish, we successfully campaigned to eliminate "white privilege." (I put this in scare quotes because I think what we really have today is "people who act like upper-class whites privilege": the daughter of Chinese immigrants who goes to Yale and then Wharton is a lot more privileged than the white, single mother of three living in a trailer park in Appalachia: the Chinese woman has learned to behave like the "white" upper class, which once was indeed all white, but today will admit anyone who adopts their values and customs.) The result would not be an abolition of ...