To begin with I'd like to thank all of my readers and fans out there, and I'd like to send special respect to anybody out there who maybe aren't really big fans. Perhaps one of you is looking in as a bit of a scoffer. Scoffing itself doesn't scare me, but biblically it's a little bit of a warning sign. However what I will say to all of you out there, perhaps on the left wing of the spectrum of political views out there... I really don't care for the base of the liberal party of Democrats. I mean they're just literally bad people. You know, I mean if they're not agnostic or full on atheist, half the time they're Catholic. I have an intense dislike of people who basically are ideologically against born again Christianity, and the liberal establishment seems to have that base under lock. But I still got to respect these people out there who really really hate me personally often times. Massive respect. People threatened to beat my ass, said they were going to break my jaw if they see me at a DJ show. These people act like getting your ass kicked is the end of the world. As somebody who's been in their fair share of bar fights, I can tell you that getting punched or even kicked is not really all that bad to be frank. In telling this to somebody nearby me, who has a loved one who also is Democrat, they said that you really can get seriously hurt in fist fights. I didn't want to doubt this person's understanding of street fighting, but I was like, "look now, if it's serious like you can get hurt? The real hurt doesn't come from fisticuffs. Real hurt comes from knives and guns."
Especially knives. I mean it really is not that bad to get jumped. I got jumped outside my house in the projects years ago. Now they probably took it easy on me cuz I'm a lightweight I guess. But honest to goodness it wasn't really the worst thing in the world. Does anybody out there want to kick my ass? I'd be happy to open up a can of whoop ass to anybody who cares to do so. Bare knuckle boxing, or get out of here with e-thug micro aggressions! I mean, if I was going to not remix punk so I don't get my ass kicked, would I really would care about left wingers and the socialite scene that they all seem to be in support of? I mean I understand there's a place for scene kids!
But as somebody with a hardcore punk album out in Germany, I've got to say if I had been just about the scene, I probably wouldn't have ever made a punk remix album. I mean it's sad but true. A lot of these people, they just go to these shows stand around looking good all night. That wasn't for me, I needed more...
Whether it's punk or rave or even old school hip hop, I was interested in the music from an early age. I was not interested in socializing. I talked to an old punk friend of mine I really respected, and I expressed my antipathy regarding the punk scene. I told him I had no use for a scene. He said the kids in the punk scene help each other out and stuff. I don't know if in retrospect maybe it would have worked better if I'd started off doing punk rock instead of making hardcore reggae dancehall..
But I could not help myself.
And further in the rave scene as you call it. ..
I was never interested in being part of something. I just wanted to express myself musically by any means necessary. I wasn't interested in people's opinions. I wasn't interested in socializing.
I was interested in getting up.
And get up I did! At my peak, I was so active in DJing and producing, I didn't even think to take a picture of myself playing gigantic crowds in Raleigh. I'm sure it would have been really impressive!
Me with my punk rock jacket and emo bangs standing there in front of a gigantic audience from the DJ booth downtown Glenwood avenue Raleigh North Carolina!!!
But I just wasn't interested in stuff like that.
So you know when it's one of those things I guess you can't avoid certain aspects of what people call scene, but ultimately I have no use for it. My punk hardcore tracks stand the test of time. And my reggae dub remix moniker continues on almost 20 years after it's inception.
So I wasn't interested in hobnobing about and socializing. I was interested in getting up. I wanted to be the don! It's funny to think about how fortunate I was to succeed. And I'm just hoping that one way or another, I can do this s*** for a job.
Like as of now I'm in the process of making a sign, like a sign that you put out for traffic passing by? I'm going to put this sign outside my house and down the road that says "SO YOU WANNA DJ/MC", with my contact info. The idea is I could use my knowledge of nonlinear sequencing and vocalizing as such, and teach other people how to do more than just settle. To try to teach people how they can be the champion sound, just like me.
I thought it was my dream to be a teacher, which really would have worked out well. Unfortunately I didn't realize how Evangelical Republican people are kind of frowned upon in the scholastic setting.
Further Evangelical Republican people are looked down upon by most counterculture scenes.
Even just run of the mill people as such, always seem to have Trump derangement syndrome, causing them to become irrational. Their hatred of all things Republican blinds them to the circumstances of existence....
When these people get together en masse, it's a true horror show of lemming like obedience to what people seem to think is the scene. Well I definitely would not turn down the opportunity to play for anybody, including people who are ideologically dead set against Evangelical republicanism.
I'm not known for keeping quiet on religion and politics... my dear Grandmother passed in the past several years, and she had a penchant for the gift of gab. I suppose it stands to reason.
My dearest Grammy worked for the FBI as a speech writer under George Herbert Walker Bush, and Bill Clinton (not to mention George jr). She was actually serving at the Federal building in DC on the day 9/11 happened.
She had so much graciousness.
And of course being open and chatty about politics and social issues comes par for the course in this family. We're actually directly related to Katherine Hepburn!!!
Her family was known for the dinner table drama and all of the sore spots and blood spilt when it came to public policy in the government and such. Perhaps it creates somebody who's a prodigal son, as I'm guilty of as an American of Northern Irish descent at times, and bound to be a pariah in the cancel culture of the "woke" public Zeitgeist in America nowadays.
I tell you, when that woman died?
She took so much of her good will, and combined it with her knowledge of FBI policies to simply serve. It's funny that a lot of people aggrandize an education that they never finished. They covet it!
My good old grandmother, she had a way. As somebody with a double PhD which she got merely because she had to work to raise my mother and her other children, and was never high falluting about it, with her gracious wisdom and indomitable spirit she showed that true knowledge and wisdom comes from respecting legitimate dialogue between free people in a free nation in a free world!!!
It's one thing for somebody who could never get out of the sophomore slump to talk intelligence as such..... All dreary and counterculturally, they seem to effuse pridefully putting on airs of intellectualist elitism.
But I remember an old pal whose book I read at one point, who said succinctly, "Just because you read an intelligent person's works, does not make you yourself intelligent.".
So these chin stroking faux counter culturalists never cease to put on airs when it comes to politics religion and philosophy. They seem to have this sensibility in which somebody who's openly attempting to open a dialogue regarding intellectual or philosophical issues, that trying too hard is to be looked down upon. For them being intelligent has to do with, on some level, being part of a collectivist community & culture! I think it's a great testament to the value of good old American grit, that my grandmother never flaunted her Superior academic achievements.
I guess that for some intellectual types, smarts has more to do with this American apathetic obsession in the current age of being too cool to care.
It's just one of those things people dislike about the American attitude, preferring a kind of citizen of the world type of wisdom and tact. They believe themselves even as residents of this country, to somehow be better than that.
Bring back the cheerfulness ladies and gentlemen.
My grammy had a double PhD, and got that as a working mother. But she never wanted her credentials, her academic achievements, and truly impactful career to give her a kind of respectability in and of itself. She was so proud of her family history yet wasn't at all braggadocious or elitist when it came to speaking of her tenure in the executive offices of the time in the District of Columbia!!!
The sad fact is if the sophomore slump, an emo slang term, doesn't apply to you, congratulations!
But talking to people who have never actually been able to get past their college sophomore year for whatever reason? This is to do proximally and for the most part with sheer lack of intellectual capability generally having to do with science/math...
A brief aside, but we ought to remember a core policy difference between Democrats and Republicans..
We all have been sold this dream of higher education and upward mobility as a pathway for all citizens.
People might not realize that the agenda surrounding higher education is such that the Democratic party believes in a sense that this is not just a good thing for young people to engage in... But truly believe that all people, regardless of brainpower or economic reality, should try to better theirselves by graduating from college.
Higher ed.
Not so much on the Republican side.
As a matter of fact it might sound Machiavellian, however the real facilitation of young people searching for Independence financially in our society is a bit of an intellectual red herring for us.
The sad fact is most of us aren't geniuses. Most of us aren't above average when it comes to IQ, or educational capability. I mean it's all well and good to want to learn and study in liberal arts as such, but should we really be promoting higher education for all?
We don't think so.
And feeding our young people this lie of upward mobility through college education? It's really a dire misuse of our educational infrastructure. It leads to people who never graduate college, are stuck with outrageous amounts of student loan debt, who have used, yea- wasted their most youthfully passionate time as young adults en masse being forced to go through this weird, abhorrent LGTBQPlus friendly orientation ritual. The key word for what happens and what they call an orientation session is the root of orientation...
Ergo ipso - "orient". These academic oxen are prone to intellectual enthusiasm when it comes to Buddhism. Ask them what they think of southern white Protestant evangelicalism? If you can catch them in the act, these sophomore dropouts and the oxen who preside over this liberal arts educational system probably would ante up and say what they really think!
What do they really think?
That they have far more acceptance regarding world religions such as the Asiatic modes of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism than our American Protestant tradition, philosophically or otherwise.
They seem awfully high falutin about what they learned in college before dropping out. It's as if they feel theirselves entitled to the culture of our US intelligentsia. Or the cultural status therien.
But take a look at the theology of protestant faith based issues! I mean the political Union of America is such that we are being dragged by God down the gutter for our future 'progress', and one should always remember and never forget that America was started by pilgrims. Pilgrims in search of religious freedom from a monarchy, and from the Catholic Church as such. This nation is was and always will be a Protestant Nation. Our passion as everyday American citizens is for the tradition of protestant Evangelical faith. The Communist secret strategy to destroy America starts with kicking that cornerstone down the road, loosed from it's position as the stone refused by the Roman empire, and seeks to obscure the truth of our country.... The truth is merely this...
Many countries, even nowaday, generally have some type of official state religious denomination.
Famously there was a bit of a governance scuffle in the early days of our founding, in which the Baptist Church sought to make the Baptist Protestant denomination our official country religion. It came to be quite an issue!!!
So to sum it up as such, the communist conspiracy's surreptitious method to divide & conquer America in order to fight against our capitalist democracy. This method has to do with simply the following...
Make us forget!
Cause us to become incapable of remembering...
What do they want to separate us from? What do communists aim to target with a kind of cultural warfare that seeks to erode the rock, the stone, our tradition and inheritance as Americans of the facticity regarding our unofficial but historical factical Truth we're celebrating on the 4th of July coming up for this summer festival in the USA...
That's the fact! Love it, hate it, care passionately or completely apathetic, this fact that the Communists are trying to indoctrinate us into forgetting is merely this...
America is a Protestant Nation.
Oftentimes you talk to these guys and when you raise the question of philosophy as such, they actually seem to have an active distaste for, and dislike of Continental philosophy. It's a hard shrift to take when one's own intellectual worldview is carte blanche against philosophy as such.
Don't know how you can justify that...
My dearest grandmother, may she rest in peace, understood things that other people don't. I used to pick her brain about some of the secrets that she learned during her stint as a speechwriter.
She used to say to me,
"Brendan if I told you the answer to what you're asking, I'd have to kill you!"
So I asked,
"Margo, why would you have to kill me if you told me the secret?"
To which she responded,
"Because if they found out that I told you, they'd kill me!"
But the main point I was making is that language and discourse, chatting, socializing, having a dialectic in which people speak more than in short grunts? Language is meant to be engaged in passionately.
So these counter-culturalist chin stroking types, they really seem to be, as part of a scene, believers in some sense or another of intelligence as a redeeming characteristic of our lives as such. As such, they tend to approach discourse and dialectic when it comes to politics, philosophy etc, with a kind of too cool for school attitude.
But the sad fact is really intelligent people, not people like me or you, but legitimately intelligent people enjoy being happy and cheerful when discussing issues of import. And the whole too cool for school virtue signaling, too good for Continental philosophy etc?
They're really doing a disservice to the authenticity required in doing philosophy. I'll make this final and important point that philosophy is not like a genre of book authorship. Ideas and wisdom are not something that go in and out of fashion. Discourse in dialectic between citizens in a free country such as the democracy we as Americans now live in thanks to Trump, this discourse is to be essentially happiness oriented.
Then why the grief? Why the culture of melancholy?
Truly intelligent people espouse their ideological position points with a coy smile and more than a slight amount of cheer. Now this is going to be different in your country if you're not in America. But America has gotten fairly vacuous when it comes to bringing the eternal flame of life on to the next generations of Americans.
I know "vacuous" is a bit of a mean spirited way of putting it, but there is a sense in which what they're hiding on the left is that Joe Biden didn't have any clothes on. Neither did Bill Clinton, Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter.
The president when it comes to left-wing leadership is transparent in just this respect. It's one of those things you know? The left wing politicians are not wearing any garments.
The emperor had no clothes!!!
I mean, it's strange to think about, knowing that I originated essentially in counterculturalist left-wing culture. But I'd like to think I was born a Republican...
...it just took me a long time to realize my true soul.
And my true soul is decidedly right wing.
I feel like the hippies and scene kids I used to hang out with way back in the day in Asheville were generally characteristically left-wing. And I found after years of taking the pulse of my community through simple dialectical involvement, is the left wing of America really finds Western Continental philosophy to be, I don't know...
Beneath them?
And that's fine and well and good. Nobody has to be all about philosophy or Evangelical politics or anything. They don't have to, and that's their free decision.
However when you put your finger on the pulse of America simply by asking people questions about their worldview in the course of, so to say, "hanging out" with them...
What I see is a mass of counter-culturalists who truly believe in freedom. People who truly believe in the power and salience of charismatic intellectualism, rather than simply putting your nose in one of these Continental works of philosophy as such and simply reading through it.
I could go on to some of the responses I'd had when d.i.y. poll testing these kind of hippie stoner scene types in Asheville, but honestly it's just not very interesting. Left wing liberals' belief in their own intellectual authority blinds them to philosophy as such. You know, for example, one person who I had gifted some philosophy books, mentioned that he couldn't understand what they were talking about when he tried to read it.
Now there's no sign of ignorance!
For what I tried to tell this fellow, is that the key to philosophy is reading through it. If you simply allow yourself to not have complete contextual understanding of what a book of philosophy is saying, one can read past the part that they don't explicitly understand word for word. Very many on the left seem to be incapable of merely reading through it. I mean one could say it starts with defining the words as per dictionary definitions of terms you're not familiar with. However you don't have to be a nitpicky grammar nerd when it comes to syntax and how to define your terms.
Often times, if not almost all the time, when it comes to existentialist authors, the person writing the tract is aware of the identity of their average reader. I mean I'm not sure how far that plays down the intellectual ladder....
But I reminded my friend that if you merely read through it, oftentimes the author will come back to a term or idea that the average reader was unfamiliar with, and define it contextually for your understanding, as the reader.
I don't know... can one have an intellectual culture without explicitly making the importance of dialectic front and center as such, in a philosophical question and ask dialectic and discourse?
So these sophomore slump faux intellectual types, seem to think that existentialism and postmodernism isn't worth wasting your time with.
Take Sartre.
People regard this type of existentialist intellectualism as if it's this kind of dark brooding veneer of the counterculturalist Communist organizations out there.
So when people think existentialism?
They generally think of some chin stroking hip or cultured type, looking down their nose on everyday Americans.
But the sad fact is almost the opposite is the case when it comes to Sartre. People attribute him with this kind of countercultural intellectual attitude. Sadness, despair, darkness...
But in fact existentialism is an ideology based around functional happiness. Existentialism is how you stay cheerful and keep up appearances in a samurai culture of Lords, civilians and soldiers.
Philosophy as such, isn't about being cool. It isn't even about academic success. It's about a philosophy which serves life.
When asked, Sartre said he never felt a day of despair in his life.
I'll leave it with that.
My one note to some of my intellectual fans however goes out to understanding what I call Post Deconstructuralist philosophy. Arising with the new philosophers, the horizon of a novel understanding in respect to qualia.
The comprehension of the historicity regarding past, present, and future. Now as a dirty born again Irishman, I have to say the number one thing that I would offer anybody out there who's legitimately interested in ancient philosophy is merely this...
Beware the tenured application of dichotomies.
Beware the dichotomy which doesn't start with first principles. Beware dichotomy, accept the unity of a priori synthesis following from first principles.
And never be above jovialy asking philosophical questions in part of our social discourse as how one copes with the horizon of a present age philosophical revolution.
I once said the first dichotomy is, a priori, the dichotomy between not having a dichotomy and applying a dichotomy. A lot of these seemingly sound assumptions we come to in our worldviews seem to be unveted psychological presumptions.
I won't go into specific examples but I'm sure you can pick your own favorite or most hated simple dichotomies that somehow seem to define our intellectual lives.
Aim for the cranium?
Aim for the sky!
Shoot them in the head..
Our own perceptual pragmatic truth is the epistomelogical limit of being.
The limit of phenomenology as such.
And remember however dark the world gets, your life has meaning. Your actions really do matter.
So anybody out there into the Rock and/or Roll?
There's nothing punk rock about apathy.
Graciously yours,
DOMESTIC DEMOCRACY UNITED SUPERPAC 2026
