“Privilege Distorts the Perspective”

Heinrich Böll was a German writer and an important author of the postwar period.

Heinrich Böll critically reflects on how privilege influences perception and interpersonal closeness.

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Heinrich Theodor Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne. As a narrator of postwar German literature, he depicted urban destruction, the hunger and hardship of survivors, and the homecoming and disillusionment of returning soldiers. His well-known short stories include “Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa…,” “The Bread of Our Early Years,” and “Dr. Murke’s Collected Silences.”

Charles Wright Mills quote about social advantages, privilege, and the elite

18. September 2023

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"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves." Charles Wright Mills