Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.
I tried to be a socialist to get chicks but instead of finding it liberating I turned and shut down any sort of grass roots movements in order to continue American capitalism
I honestly wonder if that was actually real, if he actually read those books. I see this more likely as a literary device to say that these books are useless and those that read them, like I did when I was stupid, have corrupt motivations.
It's actually a good reminder that being educated in radical matters is horseshit in itself without some kind of praxis
(cue Kamala's dad and Buttigieg Sr...)
Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.
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I tried to be a socialist to get chicks but instead of finding it liberating I turned and shut down any sort of grass roots movements in order to continue American capitalism
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I honestly wonder if that was actually real, if he actually read those books. I see this more likely as a literary device to say that these books are useless and those that read them, like I did when I was stupid, have corrupt motivations.
The dude is well read, I don't think that it's a lie that he read those authors.
Their use as a literary device is spot on though.
It's actually a good reminder that being educated in radical matters is horseshit in itself without some kind of praxis (cue Kamala's dad and Buttigieg Sr...)