This is truly one of the best posts I have read in a while. It goes beyond whether I agree or disagree with its central point (that the pro-Palestine movement does not and will never need celebrity support). Beyond, as in I am struck with a way of thinking that is truly alien and foreign, yet potentially liberating and exciting. I read a previous post from Sara

that also hit me between the eyes…I needed days to process it. This new post’s argument…as many of you know, I am obsessed with the ‘60s and I have had a not-so-secret desire to take the best parts and leave behind the worst parts. I am starting to wonder if it might be true that one of the many big mistakes then was the divinity that the counterculture afforded sympathetic celebrities.

One massive difference between the 60s and now is we saw how celebrities lived during COVID. We saw how out of touch laptop class Atlantic staffers were, assuming that the reader was WFH like them.

I truly don’t know what my next piece will be but as for my last piece…fuck it, neoreactionaries. Chase all the clout, coke and crypto. To paraphrase a legendary artist who was never a “celebrity,” we’re evolving over here.