I agree with all that.
By the way it was kind of depressing marking Travis Scott as the greatest American - Its not like I listen to the dude’s music, unfortunately there now is zero American music coming out that I listen to - its all depressive as hell. The last century, America was packed with great individuals, this century, I have only been impressed by Trump, and a bunch of people to do with him. I mentioned Scott because, of all the rap-figures that Ive seen this century, he is most “of one piece”, he seems to truly have a powerful heart. The music industry is trying to destroy him now to get another good tragedy to salivate over, and it seems he’s probably gonna fall for it.
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.
As for great American minds, I very much appreciate Philip Meyer, author of “The Son” which is a devastatingly powerful and beautiful novel in which the American spirit is captured like in no other book Ive ever read. Of course Id rank my own philosopher friends very highly, as well. 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.
I must say though that in as far as boldness of world-shaping actions are concerned, Donald Trump is supreme.
From “AsianGirlsLoveTrump” (the existence of this monicker says enough) : reddit.com/r/HillaryForPris … rump_wins/
Praise Kek.
The New Paganism is yet very very very young.