‘Everybody’s beholden to somebody.’ Ye, Clubhouse Interview, 2022 ‘What I just said is far past anything anybody in my position has ever said publicly. We ridin’ on God … I ain’t got no security, you know exactly where I’m at … Come and get me.’ Ye ‘We got China, heading — if it’s not for … Continue reading ‘I had a vision.’ For God’s sake, everyone: Ye is the opposite of Hitler, and here is why
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Mask Off: The demonisation of Kanye West — a very provisional, tentative thought piece
Disclaimer 1: Please have sympathy on my soul, dear reader. I know this world is unkind to heretics to whatever is fashionable nowadays, but I am not exactly fashionable, and I care not for the ‘views’ of media gurus or well-spoken sophists. I am an ex-student, a lonely soul, and — much more importantly, my … Continue reading Mask Off: The demonisation of Kanye West — a very provisional, tentative thought piece
The real ‘crisis of masculinity’ and its resolution
1. Violence is endemic to society. 2. But our society denies violence, while while failing to cure, that is, end, it. Napoleon at the battle of Friedland, Horace Vernet, 1807. 3. Men tend to enact violence through history. 4. Our society therefore ironically denies masculinity through violent discipline — the threat of violence by the … Continue reading The real ‘crisis of masculinity’ and its resolution
Berkeleyan Platonism: A philosophy of pure ideas
There is an argument by Kurt Gödel that I find fascinating. Gödel argued that his predecessors’ attempt to create a complete set of logical axioms to ground mathematics was doomed to fail. Instead, mathematical ideas must subsist unto themselves (as must, presumably, logical ideas). Ideas cannot complete each other. They are sufficient unto themselves. But … Continue reading Berkeleyan Platonism: A philosophy of pure ideas
Edmund Wilson 