In fact I read the whole thing, and continue to find the same reality: that you're a white man who found himself in a political and discursive culture that had made it somewhat professionally uncomfortable to be a white man, and so like many of your age and disposition you started to ostentatiously associate yourself with a faux-political critique of white maleness and in so doing draped yourself in a kind of discursive armor. Everything you have written since that book is a very long way to say "I'm one of the good white men."

I challenge you again: why are you not capable of just saying "things have changed"? Why is it so hard to accept that you've won? Why are you so rabidly attached to the notion that it's still 2002 in music culture? Taylor Swift's 2023 happened. Kendrick Lamar has his Pulitzer. They don't broadcast the Best Rock Album award on the Grammy's anymore. What more do yo need to convince you that you've won, and how long will you continue to posture as a loser as a way to spike the football?