Institutionalized: The Love Affair Between Hip-Hop and Capitalism

I believe that hip hop fundamentally is an extremely capitalist and anti-socialist medium, and it is paradoxically fascinating that rap is considered the voice of the oppressed when it is so clearly in love with the oppressing influence of capital. It is no coincidence that rap’s worship of wealth, women and success have led the… Continue reading Institutionalized: The Love Affair Between Hip-Hop and Capitalism

Against the Cathedral

“All our problems are related” reads the Occupy Wall Street poster I have seen in a half dozen college dorm rooms. Indeed, all our problems are swirled into one massive enterprise, a beast by a thousand names, and so every strand of fur or piece of claw is an opportunity to attack the entire thing.… Continue reading Against the Cathedral

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“I’m socially conservative but fiscally liberal.”

There’s a new realignment taking place in American politics. Because of shit like this, this, this and this, being socially liberal is now the authoritarian and in-group socially policing position that being conservative once was. The new conservative kids, if they think conservatism has any future at all, have to adopt a neutral stance toward… Continue reading “I’m socially conservative but fiscally liberal.”

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August 13th, 2017: An Autopsy of America

In the most twisted way, it almost appears a vigil.

It is no secret now that the United States is accelerating toward the dissolution of its founding principles. The contradictions, so blatantly obvious at the moment the foundation was set, have failed to resolve. I, like, many others, dismissed the battle between Antifa and the alt-right as a kind of cosplay, a fake politics conducted… Continue reading August 13th, 2017: An Autopsy of America

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Marx vs. Melville

“The philosophers have interpreted the world. The point is to change it.” -Karl Marx “This whole act’s immutably decreed. ’Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.” -Captain Ahab I really need to dissect and compare these quotes, because they’re the crux of so much seriously meaningful shit that needs… Continue reading Marx vs. Melville

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Mercy, Severity, and Race

At the risk of pissing off literally everybody, I’d like to make a few proclamations on the state of race in America, 2017. Of course racism is an operative philosophy of the Trump administration. This exists at the level of aesthetics. There is a collective imagination of rustic hard-working white Americans who have been abandoned… Continue reading Mercy, Severity, and Race

Infinite Fragmentation: The End of Identity Politics

The nihilism and incompleteness of modern life will never be healed through an infinite fracturing of humankind through the lens of identity politics. Fracturing can only lead to the annihilation of universal concepts, and with that, the end of the universal ability to speak and reason freely. Identity politics, nested in postmodern thought, seeks to… Continue reading Infinite Fragmentation: The End of Identity Politics

Kek! Or, A Spirited Tour of Online Nihilism

Nietzsche said ‘God is dead’ in the 19th century, and ever since, only fascism, nihilism, relativism and existentialism have stepped in to fill the void. Holy shit. Fascism is obvious. Stalin, Hitler. And I’m not going to be an idiot and say that Trump is like Hitler, because he’s obviously not. It’s just that the… Continue reading Kek! Or, A Spirited Tour of Online Nihilism

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Declared the Pro-War Proponents of the Surveillance State

CNN is a creepy and pathetic company attempting to make a profit off the caustic personality of the President while they turn heel and praise him every time he bombs foreigners. They are the perfect incarnation of the sedate, soulless liberal class and the media empires which provided such a sterile portrait of the future… Continue reading “Democracy Dies in Darkness” Declared the Pro-War Proponents of the Surveillance State