Sep 27, 2026
watched First They Came for My College today. S is a fan of the filmmakers, so plus we’re from the area, so…
anyways: i loved so much the segments about josh, who comes in a young republican and leaves a normal dude. it’s very touching, more so than i want to sully by communicating, but i want to just take a second to note that specific kind of american loneliness that leads to guys like him, that anti-intellectual refusal to take ideas or “the life of the mind” as anything but utilitarian tools. you only matter if your useful, so on so on. so it’s nice to see him find people who care. a diva after all, as malcom x says, is the female version of a hustler