Haggis's experience in Scientology, though, was hardly egalitarian: he accepted the privileges of the Celebrity Centre, which offers notables a private entrance, a V.I.P. lounge, separate facilities for auditing, and other perks.
The question is how well Fretilin's militants would accept losing the privileges of office.
You have the privilege of serving us.
"He's accepting and embracing the privilege of a media mogul," said David Nasaw, a professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center, who wrote a biography of Hearst.
We must accept the realities of privilege.
Every owner ought to be obliged formally to accept the duty that the privilege of processing a dog requires.
However, the resistance to accept the existence of white privilege is, in fact, an insult to all Black people, who see the manifestation and experience that dynamic of white privilege everyday.
"Gradually I overcame that fear and began to accept and enjoy and love the privilege of being able to carry the Nobel Prize and use it for others," said Mrs Corrigan Maguire, who has since supported Wikileaks and the Occupy movement, been arrested outside the White House and turned down a Nobel gathering in Chicago in 2012 because it was hosted by the US State Department.
And then there are the merchants who have generally paid far more to the banks for the privilege of accepting their debit cards than the service actually costs.
Merchants have long claimed the fees banks charge retailers for the privilege of accepting plastic are exorbitant, noting that electronic debit card swipes are cheaper to process than paper checks, and that banks didn't charge them debit fees for several years.
