Help, help, I’m being oppressed!

From a former professor of mine who taught Greek, Latin, and literary theory, with a side order of Marxism and New Historicism:

The status quo is oppressive. In fact, it’s a bit like studying Greek: you get up early in the morning to come in here and talk about Pindar, and you do it because you like it. But you only think that because you’ve been oppressed!