For the privileged, our idea of of what happens in jails and prisons often stems from "Orange is the New Black," or one of the many versions of MSNBC's "Lockup".
Despite its historical setting, it is a film anticipating attitudes of the 60s by people who have an absurd, privileged and conceited idea of what the 60s should or will be.
And it's particularly galling when voiced by privileged ivy leaguers whose idea of "checking their privilege" is apologizing for the acts of their founders, whose achievements and endowments should be examined in the same historical context as their faults and failings.
Dr Almond's plea carries especial resonance because it comes from a representative of a company which might be expected to cheer the idea of privileged access.
What puts the collective New York nose out of joint is the idea of privileged kids unfairly getting a Lego up on their playmates.
The idea of privileged scaffolds – that there seem to be more bioactive compounds found around some structures than others – is well established for small drug molecules, but has little significance for standalone peptide secondary structures whose adaptable shapes escape the definition of a 3D motif in the absence of a protein scaffold.
For example, Joseph Agassi suggests that several scientific discoveries made since the early 20th century have undermined the idea of privileged access to one's own ideas.
That's as clear as the neocolonial connotations of the MTP's public-relations pitch, which pushes a perception of the impoverished American heartland as a tabula rasa frontier, valuable only insofar as it can serve as a laboratory for the ideas of privileged youth.
Institutional structures and processes influence how a problem is defined in the first place, which defines what is at stake, the interested parties, and what ideas get privileged over others.
The nation, they noted, was founded on the idea that no privileged class should have an exclusive right to position, or wealth or knowledge.
