Inconvenience 4 speaks to the insidious and destructive natures of privilege and criticism.
Assuming privilege, and assuming the practice and right to criticize, can create the other: the other person, other class, other race, other gender, the other [pick any characteristic].
This is not to say that criticism and critique are not valuable for many inequitable situations and for instigating change.
But Inconvenience 4 is not about civil discourse. This Inconvenience describes the evils of dissatisfaction, projection, and a sense of superiority.
The practitioner using this Inconvenience is certainly sowing seeds of discontent and discord. Making some people feel superior to others and encouraging negative criticism creates a crooked worm, as the Inconvenience states.
The writer’s use of the word worm tells the reader what the practitioner really thinks about the client.
Notice the classic indicator of an Inconvenience, the upside-down heart. In this rendition, the writer has used the word heart and has placed it into position at the bottom of the figure.
Inconvenience 4
the simplest
the most dangerous and directest method of construction:
esteem privilege
inoculate with the virus of criticism
and the worm will be crooked enough
