Beyond Good and Yeezy: Nietzsche and the New Slaves

Lord Kanye West has once again outraged the haters with his undeniable goodness and wisdom. Apparently at his recent concerts he's been demanding everyone to rise up and recognise his obvious glory, but some of his disabled fans were unable to get on their feet. For all the haters out there, I feel sorry for them because they revealed themselves as ignorant punks who aren't deserving of the light Yeezus brings into the world, but you get it anyway because he's that big hearted of a gentleman, even though y'all just ingrates from where I sit.

Now far be it for me to deny that King Yeezy commanded these people to do something they physically couldn't before starting his show, because it absolutely happened and he knew what he was doing. But y'all imbeciles fail miserably to see the genius of his plan. See the Tru God Yeezus, like Jesus before him, has the power to cure the sick. The fans that see his show and believe were going to be made to walk again. By not getting up it just shows that those people did not truly believe, were not disciples of Lord Yeezy, and revealed in front of the whole world that they were not fans but just more haters who planted themselves in the crowd to make Kanye look bad.

What other explanation is there? Who are we to deny that this talented rapper who proclaims "I AM A GOD" without a trace of irony or self awareness is not, in fact, a god? Are all of us Tru Yeezy Believers not, in fact, gods? This is precisely what Nietzsche was conveying to us in Thus Spoke Zarathustra when Zarathustra spoke thusly:

"Companions, the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets."

Also Tyler, The Creator

Here's the point where you haters turn around and say that I'm making this up, that Kanye would never consider the deep questions and radical thought of an archaic intellectual like Nietzsche, and that's where you'd be straight wrong fool! When some scrub rapper tried to say that Kanye's original piece Stronger ripped off that scrub's earlier statement that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, Lord Yeezy straight up clowned that fool by walking into court and telling the judge direct that his main man Neezy said it first in 1888, demonstrating both his legal acumen and appreciation of German philosophers.

NEEZY: UBERMENSCH

Clearly Zarathustra would recognise the divine in Kanye. Kanye the creator, the rule breaker, the destroyer of convention, the harvester of truth. Shit, maybe Kanye is Zarathustra made manifest for the new world? 

It is also clear that Kanye himself recognises his divinity. As Yeezus says to Jesus:

"I know he the most high, but I am a close high."

And... that's about as far as I got with the Yeezy/Neezy conceit just now. Unsuspending disbelief, maybe Kanye West is just a delusional charlatan who maybe, just maybe, should check what business he has demanding anyone to do anything who paid money to see him perform, and that they have the right to see him perform whatever damn way they choose to sit or stand, able bodied/disabled/or otherwise.

Whatever you've read or heard probably isn't going to change your perceptions about Kanye in respect of his self-aggrandisement. What you may change your perceptions about is the source of Kanye's immense capacity for self-aggrandisement, for which I obviously blame white people entirely.

You may not have heard that at Yeezy's concert, the majorly middle class white fanbase who attends rap concerts in Australia jeered and heckled the disabled fans when they didn't immediately stand up at Kanye's request. I mean what the hell kind of shitlord does that, starts heckling people they don't know and probably can't see because they can't physically do something that another complete stranger asked them to do? Were there that many people in the crowd shamelessly unthinking, blindly following like sheep? 

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

I'll tell you what kind of people were in the crowd: slaves and children. Here's some real philosophy, not that overhyped, sounds-good-but-means-nothing-when-you-think-about-it Nietzsche bullshit:

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

Epictetus said that, and if you don't know who that is then educate yourself fool. And another one for good measure:

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage." 

That's Thucydides, more old school Greek philosophy for you. What I'm trying to use these ancient writers to say is that the people who booed the disabled fans at the concert were nothing but cowardly pig children with no self respect.

Damn Thucydides, you ice cold!

But here's the thing - what if Kanye set up these people to make them reveal their truly grotesque nature? This could be his rebellion against the white middle class that tries to own every aspect of Kanye's life, forcing him to move his family out of the country so they can't see where they're staying. That send him reporters forcing him to smash their recorders. That promote conspicuous consumption based on race so that all blacks want to buy all the same luxury things.

Shiny

The same affluent fans of his that own the corporations that get people into contracts they can't read. That own the private prisons which make money from incarcerating his black fans, then have a place in the the Hamptons bragging about how much they make. The same fashion labels that are happy to use Kanye to sell their products, but when he wants to get into the design part of it they won't help unless he picks the cotton himself.

Criticise Kanye for his behaviour if you want to, because it's justified. But ask yourself what would have happened if the crowd gave no reaction when he demanded everyone to stand up. What would have happened if the crowd was full of self-respecting people who thought for themselves instead of the cowardly herd of corpses and believers who enabled him? Because whether he intended to or not, Yeezy just showed who all of the new slaves are.

The new slaves, the will eventually turn on Kanye. It is predicted by the man himself. As soon as they like him, they will unlike him. Nietzsche predicted it as well. For the man who proclaims himself a god, well everybody knows that Nietzsche said that "God is dead." Not everybody knows that it is we who have killed him.

We are the new slaves. I see the blood on the leaves.