[shkkmo]

> as he[sic] observes all of them have learned that in order to pursue these goals unmolested they have to put on the cloak of being less privileged than those around them.

This isn't really the issue. The issue is not that they are pretending, it is that they are forgetting that they are pretending.

> We forget the extent of our own power and start blaming an ephemeral elite beyond ourselves for the ills of society.