Egg Drop

I really enjoyed the egg drop activity that YIA facilitated for us. This was really effective way of explaining the concepts of resources and privilege in an active medium. The egg drop expanded my intellectual understanding of privilege with a more experiential understanding. Intuitive understanding of these concepts are very important. I found the discussion panel to be very beneficial as well. The entire group did a great job reflecting the ambiguity, the “grey area”, in discussion on spectrum of disadvantage and privilege.

Connecting the egg drop event to the Ullucci article is very important in understanding the relationship between achievement and circumstance. I have read somewhere in a social psychology article of the “just-world” theory. In short, just-world theory explains of people’s belief that justice is in the universe. Examples are: you get what you deserve, you get what you put in, or if you work hard good things will come. Just world theory is a functionalist perspective that helps the person to better comprehend and cope with his perception, be it fair or unfair. This article also mentions how the just world theory helps better explain victim blaming. I mention the just world theory because people, the mass public, prescribe to this belief system of a just world, which ignores the environment, circumstance, and complex variables of our reality. It is comforting and easier to critic the individual, and then latter label that person. It is scary and pleasurable to admit that the larger society we benefit from is in fact damage.

Here is a comic that best express my feelings toward the subject, enjoy.