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 remixes continue 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 be irrational. Their hatred of all things Republican blinds them 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 intellectualism.
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 outside. 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 scene. 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 for some intellectual types, smarts has more to do with this American apathetic obsession in the current age of being too cool to care.
I guess 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 wasn't at all braggadocious when it came to her tenure in the executive offices of the time.
The sad fact is if the sophomore slump, an emo term, doesn't apply to you congratulations!
But talking to people who have never actually been able to get past their sophomore year for whatever reason?
They seem awfully high falutin about what they learned in college. It's aw if they feel theirselves entitled to the culture of US intelligentsia. Or the cultural status therien.
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 your 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 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 has 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 theirselves....
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 I'd be 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 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 zeitgeist 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 that the average reader was unfamiliar with, and define it for yourself, 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 look at this type of existentialist intellectualism as if it's this kind of dark kind of brooding veneer of the counterculturalist Communist organizations out there.
So people think existentialism?
They generally think of some chin stroking hip or cultural 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, and soldiers.
Philosophy as such,
Isn't about being cool. It isn't even about academic success. It's about a philosophy could serve life.
When asked, Sartre said he never felt the day of despair in his life.
I'll leave that with that.
My one note to some of my intellectual fans however goes out to understanding what I call Post deconstructuralist philosophy. Arising of the new philosophers, the horizon of a new understanding.
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 a philosophical questions as part of our social discourse as members in a horizon of new thinkers.
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!
Our own perceptual pragmatic truth the limit...
The limit of phenomenology as such!
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