Powerlessness creates doubt while privilege naturalizes itself through justifying ideologies

Evidence

To be in someone else’s power is a conscious experience which induces doubt about the ordering of the universe, while those who have power can forget it, or can assume that it is part of the natural order of things and invent and adopt ideas which justify their possession of it. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 289

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact formulation of the asymmetric epistemics of power and subordination — the colonizer forgets power while the colonized cannot.
• XREF: connects to: Suffrage serves as a moral defense against anticapitalist resentment of privilege — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 815; Politicized identity groups invest deeply in their own powerlessness to ground their existence — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1935; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”