“let's empower people with 40
acres and a mule, let's give some
land, that's the plan." Kanye
West
Politics is
approaching zero for more reasons than the purely political. Be it Biden or
Trump, the protagonists approach eachother because they deal solely in money as
opposed to the physical reality of fields and forests.
As an outsider,
West may not yet be aware that the game is a money game. Or, as Clinton said, “the
economy, stupid.”
All modern
candidates are so ditto it takes a rapper to be different. Why are they ditto?
Because money is numbers, and numbers are convincing. Money gets convincing
things like iphones to plug-into the head and feed the ego with “facts.”
Certain of West’s
other utterances make one assume him to be widely read so, while certainly
egotistical, he isn’t plugged-into his own inane universe in the manner of a
Trump. He goes outside the universe of the detached head (attached to machines)
and into areas such as art history.
The fact he’s a
also an astute businessman I guess is positive, but his priorities appear to be
more broadly moral than narrowly monetary. The morality is that land empowers;
it is a type of freedom the urban life appears to lack.
Tax is trivial
compared to the moral backbone of rustic growth, decay and rebirth. However,
not only is money convincing and gets convincing things, but the more convincing
things get the leas real they are.
The real
universe is proportionate and symmetrical, like an individual human body. A
product of unthinking harmonics (womb.) The feminine principle of beauty and
harmonic symphony (moon) is outside of ciphers/TV commentators, who are rapidly
approaching the vanishing point of technique (numbers, algorithms.)
This
state-of-affairs attracts the ego, which explains the similarities between
Biden and Trump. Outside of this is caustic physicality, which is the product
of the cycle of decay and revival in nature, of things being left to be what
they really are.
Grace and
strength (Pictorial 39)
The caustic
materials of living cycles have atmosphere, because atmosphere is the presence
of strength. This type of moral milieu and atmosphere is anathema to the
Clintonian notion that money alone runs the economy (stupid.)
Money becomes
the handmaiden for a logical system that approaches the vanishing point where
straight-line advance becomes ever harder to distinguish from repetition. To
what extent is modern progress actually repetition in the land of numbers
(algorithms)?
Land provides
freedom and strength, where numbers supply information. The information is
attractive to the ego.. (etc.) This is where West’s quote is very telling. Life
is not a numbers game. It is born of cycles and dies by the same cycles.
It is
proportionate and symmetrical. It has atmosphere and caustic strength, smells,
dirt, cleanliness. Every living thing has harmonic power – the feminine
principle of beauty (womb, moon.)
This is the
unthinking universe that actually delivers moral strength. TV commentators do
not live in the unthinking universe (of nostalgia) and so can only deliver
weakness and numbers. Trump is a product of this logical system, and cannot
conceive that strength derives from the land, from mules and dirt.
From the west and
the range – a slight coincidence with Kanye! From bison and other proportionate
emblems of vigour on the plains. From their throats and the strong neck and
pliable tongue that connects them to reptile origins.
The story of
sinuous strength in active lands of dirt and dust and drench is an American one
of nostalgia. Neither Trump nor Biden have apparently heard of it, only West.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (about 1970)