Kanye Mega-Thread

[Tyler Robinson]

14 minutes ago, Oeaohoo said:

Who cares what Kanye has to say about political issues? It’s not his area of expertise or what, as a “celebrity”, he is celebrated for. One of the main absurdities of democracy is the idea that we have to take every drooling morons “opinion” into account on every damned issue.

On 12/7/2022 at 6:57 PM, Danioover9000 said:

@Tyler Robinson

   Sorry you got quoted. 

Do you think Trump has something to do with it? 

 

[Romanov]

[lisindel]

On 12/11/2022 at 5:07 AM, Oeaohoo said:

I wonder how much of this comes from our stupid obsession with the individual artist as “genius”. The general conception of the “artist” today owes a lot to Romantic poets like Shelley and Byron, who narcissistically stood aloof from humanity whilst plunging the depths of their individual subjectivity and regurgitating it for the rest of the world to digest. This stands in stark opposition to the great artists of the traditional past - for example, those who built and painted the Churches and Cathedrals of Christendom - who generally remained anonymous. This was an ideal of objectivity (I use this word not to refer to the idea of an “objective” material world but in a more or less Platonic sense) which allowed the artist to transcend their petty human nature. Now, however, our culture is obsessed with this petty human nature and actively denies everything beyond it. When you take this to its conclusion, you get millions of people poring over every word that is impulsively summoned up from the psychological puddle-depths of the supposed “geniuses” of our time like Kanye.

Who cares what Kanye has to say about political issues? It’s not his area of expertise or what, as a “celebrity”, he is celebrated for. One of the main absurdities of democracy is the idea that we have to take every drooling morons “opinion” into account on every damned issue.

An era of celebration.