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Hypothesis: If you think of Kanye as a āstatus deregulatorā, he makes a lot more sense. Heās willing to be wrong, to be insulted, mocked, etc in order to achieve his long-term goal of being relatively free from the constraints of other peopleās status rules
The last paragraph of Campbellās The Hero With A Thousand Faces: the modern hero who dares to heed the callā¦ cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast of its slough of pride, fear, avarice, sanctified misunderstanding live, as though the day were here https://t.co/EgxElN9fxG
literally an earnest life enjoyer https://t.co/FQfFnnOG4R
"I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. [...] I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. [...] some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer." https://t.co/ZUaA9sPU79
I keep accidentally recreating Nietzsche's talking points without meaning to https://t.co/f27nMYf77Y https://t.co/jG40vctQVY
what were the movies, books, stories, games, songs, that moved you deepest when you were a kid? I strongly recommend revisiting them, feeling the feelings again, and allowing those feelings to help illuminate the psychic cave of your subconscious, to see the writings on the walls https://t.co/lVurOfKq5H
I gotta add Nietzsche in here because it turns out I'm truly just recreating his talking points over and over again ā in this case re: "historical sense" ā https://t.co/f5NsogZ2fj https://t.co/2AzCaseUz5
looks like there's also a resonance between my POV on aesthetics and Nietzsche's POV on style (via Rollo May's Man's Search For Meaning) there is no substitute for cultivating taste https://t.co/lVrEfLqB2Y https://t.co/IqVLWalYQi
nobody can move as quickly, confidently and resolutely as the people who are grounded in a deep understanding of + pursuit of their own aesthetic. these artists look like magicians to people who aren't in tune with themselves https://t.co/bc3Mc9xX8t
accidentally reinvented nietzsche again https://t.co/pTd5wbESTK https://t.co/c9lxuPYKlP
one of my talking points is "I believe philosophy departments should be 50% staffed by children" ā and a common response is that people think I'm doing a sort of silly and cute joke bit to make people laugh. but I am not. I am being absolutely serious
@DRMacIver @rixxtr checks out https://t.co/ggKNZrWaJN