Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

I would hope a more balanced unbiased opinion. People who are not conservative right-winges do not worship karl marx.

I was (and for inspection, still am) a left-progressive straight white male easily mistaken for a conservative fall guy across classes. No - I never grew used to this; i.e. identity politics and those who deeply identified with the same looking for a place and person to swing an axe towards. Being somewhat reserved and a far cry from an urban hipster, again and again people would fitfully employ me as some transference surrogate regarding all of the quite legitimate awfulness they had suffered at the hands of real people and manifestation of the dominant patriarchy that might not strictly have been me myself. People came to apologize first, affording a few words of exception in relation to what they personally understood of me before venting loud and fierce. I appreciated the preface afforded, but in sum it grew hard to wake up in the morning to look into a mirror and see reflect back the outlines if you will of the enemy incarnate; i.e. an expressionless white male in clothes and sporting a hairstyle not especially attractive of cut or expensive, and generally feeling like a stuntman in the authenticity drama of countless others. I came to NYC motivated by the radical stirrings of lyrical left, the Jewish-American radical intelligentsia long-active and more, and instead I felt more a situational stand-in for individually recited experiences of the culture wars. Some of this was very interesting, but much of it was quite hard.