Antithesis wrote:I'm not into rap, I mostly listen to rock from the 80s, 90s and 00s, a bit of classical, country, electronic and experimental.
Mainstream music at least has never been worse, rock is all but dead, and rap, r&b, pop and country qualitatively peaked decades ago.
It's funny we have greater access to music now than ever before in unrevised history, but the trade off is most of what we produce today is garbage.
Its not about the rap itself, what I referred to 2pac for, its not that I imagine N would have loved his music. Its the awareness of tragic pathos with which he lived - the directness of his life.
Music I like is e.g. Bachs non Christian stuff, some hard dance music, Arab fuck music, Bizet, my own music, some specific popular songs which I've long exhausted, and some Coltrane, some other properly Dionysiac jazz, and just, here and there something turns up that I like. But I hardly ever listen to music anymore.
All this, rap music, Tupac too, is what I see as belonging to a long process of physiological awakening to a more direct state, which Nietzsche describes in some of the quotes I gave earlier, and which is going to have to be part of human evolution. In that vein I see the whole of American music. An awakening to a more physiologically integrated state, and all drug (ab)use that accompanies the music industry is simply part of the chemical process that mankind and his evolution are. Its all an experiment.
America too peaked decades ago, it's in decline now, it isn't going anywhere but down.
If it doesn't take the rest of the world with it on its way down, we will see Asia, particularly China supersede it, both materially, militarily, and perhaps even culturally.
At the very least it'll be a more multipolar world, America will have to share dominancy.
At the least, indeed.
More than that Im not willing to speculate.
Its like Bergson says now. The future isn't reducible to the present.
But yesterday I felt like making a point about the distances that yet have to be crossed before we have something like Dionysos in human form. Since Dionysos cant be seen separately of music and intoxication its inevitable that we consider the most intoxicating musical artists. And by that I mean, those who simply have the greatest intoxicating effect on the People. Not so much on me. Dionysos was hardly intoxicating only the philosophers.
Dionysus has always been with us, all the great artists were manifestations of him, or rather Dionysus was a manifestation of them.
Parts of him anyway and not just artists.
But the full fledged Dionysos has yet to appear - as a Nietzschean I have rather high standards for what human I would grant the title "Dionysos".
I must say though that in as far as boldness of world-shaping actions are concerned, Donald Trump is supreme.
Trump is an ubermensch, an elitist, not a right (libertarian), nor a leftwing (socialist) egalitarian, altho he makes a lot of promises to the people, he rarely delivers.
He's rich, powerful, pretty smart, in an unrefined sort of way, but not very sentient, I don't think.
I think he is so smart as to be able to appear not very sentient and at the same time completely reshape world-politics.
What he has done internationally is astonishing.
He has basically cleaned up all the hypocritical the filthiness of the American Empire. Unbelievable.
He's not a globalist, nor a nationalist, a real globalist would grant amnesty and citizenship to most illegals, a real nationalist would close the borders, but he wants to keep the borders open, without granting amnesty and citizenship, for the cheap labor.
A real globalist would push for world government, either by conquest or consent, a real nationalist would be noninterventionist, but Trump wants to continue playing war games.
No, he is absolutely not paying any games. He has only made very few, and all deeply serious and efficient acts of war.
All previous American presidents have been utter rotten shit when it comes to war.
Causing millions of unnecessary deaths and dozens of ruined states with absolutely no benefit for anyone at all except some weapon manufacturers and oil producers.
Trump is so great it is truly hard to find a parallel.
He is alike Alexander the Great in greatness at war.
From "AsianGirlsLoveTrump" (the existence of this monicker says enough) : https://www.reddit.com/r/HillaryForPris ... rump_wins/
Hillary's not going to prison.
The Trumps, Clintons and Bushs are all in cahoots with the rest of the elite.
Not cahoots, negotiations.
Power works that way.
Only the very weak and naive expect it to be different.
Praise Kek.
The New Paganism is yet very very very young.
If paganism means elitism, and polytheism, it never really went away, just occulted itself, first masquerading as Abrahamism, then as right and leftwing egalitarianism.
All that is included. But I said the new paganism.
I am a religious fundamentalist of Odin. I do not relativize or anthropomorphize my Gods, I take them more literally than anything except my kin.
THOR governs this here river bend.