Kanye West And The Utopia Trap

Authored by Tom Luongo,

The Culture War is over.  The Marxists lost.

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They were always going to lose.  Because cultural Marxism cannot sustain itself without feeding off of other people’s wealth.  It’s a parasitic ideology that first consumes the host then drives it mad to destroy everyone else.

After the 2016 election of Donald Trump when Kanye West had his famous meltdown on stage and walked off during a show it was a pivotal moment.

Many saw an enfant terrible throwing a tantrum and crying for attention  But I didn’t.  I heard a man whose world-view was in flux and causing him real pain.

The kind of pain that changes a man.

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It’s a moment when you look at what you’ve built and see it for what it is.  In Kanye’s case it wasn’t his art that was the problem, it was the reaction to it.  The system supporting it.

He saw the politics and structure of the music industry, rightly, as just another mechanism of social control. He railed against radio, MTV and the rest of the distribution system.

He saw his place within it, how it was driving artists and fans apart, to bicker and argue while the real power lay with those controlling and stoking the conflicts.

And he torched it.  Willingly.  With an almost hyper self-awareness.

Fast forward to this week when Kanye emerges from his personal 40 days in the desert and tweets out, as Scott Adams said, “Seven Words that Changed Everything.”

I love the way Candace Owens thinks

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018

Scott’s right about that.  I’m not sure about his whole “Golden Age” thing (watch the video linked above).  But, I am sure that Kanye West put paid his promise to his fans that he pissed off in November 2016 that he would be a change agent.

That he wasn’t going to go along to get along, stay quiet, be a good boy and reap the benefits of a system he saw as corrupt and corrupting.

Like Kanye or hate him, in this moment you have to respect him.

What he did this week goes far beyond red-pilling a large swath of the American black community about how the Democrats take them for granted, use them for their purposes.

What he did was throw the entirety of cultural Marxism into the ashbin of history.  He just took a massive dump on the entire canon of identity politics.

And then he lit it on fire and threw it on the Gatekeepers of Culture’s front door.

Actions Over Intentions

I don’t know how much of Kanye’s original rant was calculated performance art but I don’t care.  As an economist I’ve trained myself to dispense with such nonsense.

Because you don’t measure a man by his intentions.  You measure him by his actions.

This is one of the fundamental issues of identity politics and Marxism. The insistence that intentions are more important than consequences.

Cultural Marxists wrap themselves in the moral high ground, stating their intentions are noble and selfless. The are putting the community over themselves, while denigrating those honest enough to admit they act for themselves first and the community second.

And this is their defense mechanism for deflecting criticism when their plans fail.

At least our intentions were pure. 

But, as Ayn Rand rightly pointed out, altruism doesn’t exist.  One helps another person because it satisfies their own needs first and the object of their help second.

Some people get immense satisfaction in helping others.

And there is nothing immoral about that. It doesn’t taint their good works with the stain of profit.   It simply is.

So, I don’t care if Kanye did these things for purely selfish reasons or not.  I don’t think he did.  But, he could be the kind of malignant narcissist his critics accuse him of being, most of whom today side with the cultural Marxists.

I just know that whatever his reasons he destroyed the narrative of minority victimization.  And he did it with the precision of a brain surgeon, cutting out the ideological rot in millions of brains with seven words.

As a writer, I’m a bit jealous.

As a human being I’m eternally grateful.

It’s Not My Fault!

And this is why the Culture War is over. It’ll take some time, but this period of history is the culmination of more than a hundred years of Marxism as the dominant political ideology.

Their long march through the institutions is complete just in time to see all of these institutions fail.

They aren’t failing all at once.  A pension system here, a small country’s hyperinflation there.  But they are failing.

Why? Because central planning in all its forms is beset with what Hayek called, “The Knowledge Problem.”

In short it is that the most important knowledge, that of time and place most relevant to individual actions, is unknowable to the central planner.  And that propagates errors in policy which ultimately is capital destructive.

It is why global debt is out of control.  It is why the central planners made the Faustian bargain with the banking cartel to create debt-based money to fund their Utopia. The Marxists get wealth redistribution but at the cost of the banks’ vig.

And everyone else suffers.

As we approach the moment where we finally reach the end of the societal road paved with debt these institutions will fail more rapidly.

Cultural Marxism is, like all collectivist ideologies, Utopian.  By divorcing intentions from consequences it not only insulates itself from criticism but sells itself as a path to higher plane of spirituality which it can’t deliver.

It justifies ends with means that are abhorrent and, like all psychopaths, blames its victims.

It’s never their fault when people are starving in the streets, throwing acid on infidels and selling aborted fetuses to the highest bidder.

No.  Basic welfare is a right.  Open borders? a right.  Abortion, a right.

The Utopia Trap

And that’s the Utopia Trap, the idea that we can make Heaven on Earth by appropriating the life and time of another person through enforced communal responsibility.

On the other hand is the staunch individualist who understands that life is suffering, time is precious and death inevitable.

So, no matter what bad decisions we as individuals make they are still better than the ones the willfully ignorant and ideologically blinded make for us.

So, as the Culture War grinds to its inevitable conclusion, we humans will emerge from this foray into mass insanity known as Marxism smarter just like we did when we overthrew the High Priests of the Sun Gods and the Divine Rights of Kings.

And if we have people like Kanye West and, yes, Donald Trump, to be our Loki figures, gleefully blowing holes in their Utopian dreams so be it.  Because, honestly, who is better suited for that job?

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Kanye, bruh, don’t hug him… the kids will not know what to do with that.

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Hollywood Rob

Sure Tom, we can all hope that you are right, although I suspect that your predictions are a bit premature.

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2

Couldn’t see/find any ‘video linked above’

Mousanony
Mousanony
Uncola

He saw his place within it, how it was driving artists and fans apart, to bicker and argue while the real power lay with those controlling and stoking the conflicts.

Yep.

What he did was throw the entirety of cultural Marxism into the ashbin of history. He just took a massive dump on the entire canon of identity politics.

One can only hope. We’ll see…

Gilnut
Gilnut

IMHO Kanye displayed the final stages of complete and total cognitive dissonance when he walked off that stage. Most of us go through a process over a long period of time, some turn back due to the amount of pain and angst caused by the process. While I admit I’m not a fan of Kanye and haven’t delved into his celebrityness, it sure does look to me that this is legit. If someone in that arena can be redpilled, imagine what’s happening behind the scenes with the Normies. People wonder how a person like Trump became POTUS, I submit that Trump is a direct result of redpilling. I can remember no time, in my life, where a person like Trump would even be a serious contender, let alone win.

May you live in interesting times. Indeed.

Wip
Wip

What is the cause and reason for Cultural Marxism?

Dick Jones
Dick Jones

In the late 1800s/early 1900s, students of Marx were starting to become disappointed. The “revolution of the proletariat,” as predicted by Marx had not happened yet.

Well, there was the Russian Revolution, but Marx had predicted that the uprising by the working class would occur in an advanced industrial nation, like Britain or Germany. By comparison, Czarist Russia was like a third-world country.

You have to understand that at the time, Marxism was considered a hard science, like chemistry or physics. So for the science to be wrong, was unimaginable.

A group of Jewish German intellectuals got together, to try and understand where Marx had gone wrong. They decided that the “class struggle” component of Marxism – workers vs. capital owners – was too narrow, too confining. They decided that in order for revolution to happen as Marx predicted, the “struggle” would have to be extended beyond class.

E.g., race, sex, political beliefs, the environment, etc.

In order to guide this struggle to the desired revolution, they also invented something called “critical theory.”

As defined by Wikipedia, “Critical Theory is a school of thought that stresses the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.”

Which is a bunch of pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook. In a nutshell, critical theory says that all existing, traditional institutions are bad, because they enslave you. By then “critiquing” these institutions, you can make them fairer, more equal, thereby improving society.

Some institutions that are therefore bad, and subject to critical theory:

1. Heterosexual relationships
2. Marriage
3. Nuclear family
4. Meritocracy
5. Religion
6. School
7. Absolute truth/morality
8. Monoculture

And so forth and so on. All modern forms of SJW-ness – feminism, identity politics, cultural diversity, eco-mentalism – can be traced back to the critical theory concept created by the Frankfurt School.

Francis Marion

Who’d have thunk a black guy would play the part of Moses in 2018?

Now that’s diversity.

Hollywood Rob

Francis, Moses was pretty much a black guy. Not completely of course, but mostly a black guy.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Radiant Face of Moses
…34But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, 35the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him.

Alfred1860
Alfred1860

You need to look into the DNA science about the origin and movement of races, cultures and language featured in Nassim Taleb’s tweets over the past few months.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I don’t do twitter, Freddy. I was thinking about the similarity of the Aztec calendar face and the Etruscan gorgon recently. Notice the nose of Central American Indians is similar to the aquiline shape of ME folks’ nose. Since the Etruscans sailed to Italy, it’s possible they preceded Columbus’ route to the new world. Did Taleb say anything about that?
EC

Gerold

It’s ingrained in our culture and religion. Contrary to Tom Luongo’s wishful thinking, it’s not ending anytime soon.

Unfortunately, our enemies are taking full advantage of it and since they’re willing to die for their cause and we aren’t, they’ll eventually win by outbreeding us.

I covered it in greater detail in the article: “Pathological Altruism and White Guilt.”
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Pathological Altruism and White Guilt

KeyserSusie
KeyserSusie

Pathological Altruism and White Guilt

Great piece Gerold. You are one more here, who creates feelings of inadequacy in me.
I mirror much of what you say in my recent post on the JQ. Thank you for what you write.

Anonymous
Anonymous

As an economist I’ve trained myself to dispense with such nonsense.
As a writer, I’m a bit jealous.
As a human being I’m eternally grateful.

This fool didn’t train himself enough or he’d have dispensed with Kanye, a hanger-on of the Kardashian Klan. To paraphrase an anonymous commenter on OJ Simpson, Kanye ain’t been black since he married into the Klan. What, now they are trying to canonize this moran? Isn’t this the same fool who was tryna borrow a $Bil from Zuckerberg just a couple of years ago?

starfcker

“And if we have people like Kanye West and, yes, Donald Trump, to be our Loki figures, gleefully blowing holes in their Utopian dreams so be it. Because, honestly, who is better suited for that job?” Too many people around this place keep waiting for leadership to arrive in the package they prefer, whatever that may be. Tom Luongo gets it right. It shows up however it shows up. And the proper response is to be grateful and supportive. All it takes to fix this it’s for men to be men and women to be women. The Jordan Peterson post yesterday was hilarious. All he was saying was the same thing that Zman says. Don’t bear hug losers. In business you learn you’re going to make mistakes. And you just cut them out as soon as you figure out their mistakes. Ride your winners. Cut your losers. You’ll do fine. It was funny reading the people that thought that Peterson was one of the losers they needed to cut. Darwin in action right there

Stalky McTurk
Stalky McTurk

“I just know that whatever his reasons he destroyed the narrative of minority victimization. And he did it with the precision of a brain surgeon, cutting out the ideological rot in millions of brains with seven words.”

That’s some breathtaking Pollyanna optimism right there. And it assumes that there actually is a political solution available to the citizens of the modern West.

His lofty dismissal of the Divine Right of Kings may also be misguided. What he overlooks is that this Cultural Marxism would have been eradicated long ago under a Monarchy that took its right to self preservation as a self evident truth. There is a theory that Western decline really began with the French Revolution, and when you consider that there is currently public debate about gender pronouns under the much vaunted Republican government model it makes one stop and think. The fact that We have nothing to unite beneath–no God, no King, no People– is a significant part of the reason the malignancy has spread so deeply as it has.

We shall see, as another poster reflected.

BB

Look at the Jewish men that control the music companies that control Rap Music.They are all DEVIL worshipping bisexual Homosexuals.You would not believe what these rap Stars have to do to satisfy their controllers. Go to YouTube and listen to them explain why” Kenny ” had his mental meltdown.
Then watch the Satanic Roots of Rock and Roll or They sold their souls for Rock and roll or Rock and Roll Sorcerers​ of the New Age. Or Hollywood’s war on God ” just to name a few of the shows that tell the truth about this industry.You will never look at Rock and Roll or Hollywood or Rap music the same .

BB

Starfarter you really need to watch the YouTube videos below before you ever worship these vile bastards in rock and roll. They are vile , degenerates scum who no one should care about much less worship.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

The sun rising in the west. Two moons on the horizon. Kanye West doing something admirable.

These are things I never thought I would see in my lifetime.

Anonymous
Anonymous

1Q84?

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

I don´t know much about Kanye West, but I do know the guy had bronze balls so big he needs a wheelbarrow to carry them. I can assure you the Democratic leadership is pooping all over themselves over the stand he has taken. If West swings ten percent of the black vote the Democrats are toast everywhere and they know it. Of course, West knows it too, which is just why he did it. He figured out who was really behind the liberal/leftist agenda and it ain´t James Brown or Farrakhan. Seders are being called in a panic all over Hollywood and Manhattan.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I don’t care for Kanyito but I agree whole-heartedly with today’s message. In fact, I’ve been saying it for years here on TBP; screw the Dems. They did nothing for Hispanics, merely stringed them along with the promise of immigration reform.

I don’t know why folks are acting like his is some sort of revelation, it isn’t. If you know your Skinner, you know you do not reward bad performance. Minorities don’t have to be Democrats or Republicans. When your vote is the swing vote, you should have more power, not less.
EC

hardscrabble farmer

“I haven’t seen this many pissed off democrats since Lincoln freed the slaves.”

-FOSOB

(found on some other blog)

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