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Here are some thoughts I had when writing the previous paragraph:

• Should I explain the standard arguments for tilting or not tilting?

• Anyone reading this would want to know, right?

• Or am I just telling myself that because I want an excuse to show that I know the arguments?

• Or is my whole “truly humane position” just an attempt to place myself above people who argue for the third

  option—exactly the kind status-jostling that I’m accusing them of?

• What am I even trying to accomplish here? Why am I writing this essay? What am I doing with my life? Who am I?

Apparently, lots of people react similarly to reading Bourdieu. This is a very strange and uncomfortable way to look at the world.