Must we elevate the everyday? Sean Santiago unpacks the “elevation to privatization pipeline.” “…there’s a trend, or maybe just a linguistic tic, of positioning basic human needs (hygiene, shelter, sustenance) as luxuries, which makes it that much easier for oligarchs to swoop in and privatize them, or at least make privatization seem unavoidable. Talking about turning everything into a “practice” or “ritual” squirts sideways out of the same problematic fountain.”