Maybe it’s just hard for me to relate to something that the average will never experience. But this didn’t touch me in the way that it should. He is asking going around making a line in the sand of who is in the brat pack calling people “brat-pack adjacent” when he is haunted by the publishing of the article is inconsistent with the sentiment. I just remember him asking people to list the members and anxiously waiting to be included in the name dropping act.