Trama is actually, in the default, bad for you. That's part of why we don't want to experience itt. People have made whole cultural practices out of trama that incoted something like knowledge and insight. It's not some automatic crown that you get for suffering. It was built, and it was built intentionally by people who recognized they had to build it because it wasn't there yet.
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).
Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference
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