Latin/Hispanic America thus has a debutante on da philosophical scene. Never was a place to inspire great writers, let alone scientists.
But as we say “when there is one sheep over the dam, more will follow”.
I’ll keep an eye on the place.
(That is to say, giving condescending compliments is an old tactic.)
That didn’t sound condescending. It was actually quite motivating. At least genuinely flattering.
Except the thing about hispanic america and art. We have some of the best literature I’ve ever read. But we still have some of that old imperial pride, it’s really only meant to be and possible to be enjoyed by hispanic Americans.
Ain’t gonna be no other like me. I’m the only one that likes the US enough to adapt to their asthetic standards. I mean we have plenty of aspiring US copycats, but I don’t consider it the same thing. They see it as adapting US style to Venezuela or wherever, I consider myself a globel citizen, so to speak, like composers that moved to Venice. And anyway, millenials ruined everything anyway. All our great writers are dead.
But no, it is actually quite inspiring.
I alwyas told you to be more serious about art and forget the whole politics or straight intellectual thing. You took that as condescending. I get that a lot, appearently I’m a condescending person. It is not by design, I do not actually notice it.
The reason I think Hispanic America has achieved the highest level of intellectuality on Earf is that our intellectuals always understood themselves as writing in the wilderness. Unlike the Europeans or North Americans, we never bothered to wonder how to distill genious from dirt, we took the European innovations as givens and applied it into the dirty world. It resulted in the kinds of questions so innocent and eurodite, so beside the monkey and the snake and the ants, that it went wway fucking farther than I’ve seen Europe or North America go. Those guys pace themselves, you know what I mean?
Only writer that gets close to understanding how Hispanic American writers question is Stephen King.
But I do concede, I still think the grand prize is in the US. Hispanic America has a ceiling that the US does not have. In important ways, US is even much more innocent than Hispanic America. Less self-important. That’s the key, yes, true gringo artists are not self-important. That’s one thing we did not shake off from Europeans.
Rap works because it works. No rapper ever expected to be taken some way or another before the music started playing.
Also why gringos have been the only ones so far to compose music that enters the Venetian continuity, 50’s and early 60’s jazz.
I’m proud to be of my part of the planet. I consider Venezuela only to be a place.
Anyone that limits themselves to a nationality, the aspiring universe that is a nation, already lost the big game.
If anything your “condescension” works too well. It strokes my vanity too much, gets my eye off the ball.
Not that it’s too important. I like ilp, and enjoy the outlet to express some thoughts. But the real game is, as you implied with your insult, in making the billions. As per the post you linked, if you can’t think of what to do with billions once you have them, you are a faliure and a shame to the human race.
Stephen King is great.
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Anyway, glad thats actually really clear. Yes. Weirdly the people with the most billions seem completely unable to spend them in any cool ways. That is the fault of Socialism, which replaced any impulse that reeked of genuine appreciation.
The fun thing about any Hispanic American friend Ive had is that they are so eminently disdainful of what on occasions theyll simply brave to call “white people”.
This is refreshing. Especially since I dance rather well it is fun to talk to Hispanic Americans about “white people”.
Another friend of mine, the Chilean-Brazilean, I tested this stuff on him a few days ago, saying that for a white man the spirits are pretty complicated. He nodded approvingly in the dark. Then he went on to slander the white man a bit and forced me on the defensive, which as a white man is the offensive. I said well, the white man has the power to be at peace. He isnt at peace, but he has the power to be. He then said how much he hated it that I was actually literally taking up the position of the white man. But I was really just talking as a mellow Viking. Anyway, Hispanic Americans are the only ones with the will to address The White Man to his face. They clearly dont feel threatened. Not more than they feel superior.
This chemistry gives me good expectations of the future of Hispanic America. It is certainly the “other Europe” the way the states are arranged. Much can be set up there to thrive for millennia.
Lets be clear, White Man is always said by non whites or also-whites from a nonwhite pathos, so it is impossible not to sense it as a derogatory term.
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The only solution for this I found in what turned out to be my actual ethnicity, the type of dirt that turned me up. It turned me into a tribal man, changed all the laws. So thats what youre looking at in the future of the White Man - his admitting to non-universal dominance, dominance in his realm only, and then only under his gods and ancestors.
Science happened. Perhaps Christianity only happened to create enough inwardness and recluse to continue science. Perhaps then Hispanic America has a number of centuries of genius discovery ahead of it.
Schools can be started now.
The School of Genius Discovery. I think itd be well located on the Equator.
Because they arent getting anywhere at CERN.
from within the grapevine.
Colliding particles isnt seeming to be conductive of the best way to cognize their relation.
Anyway what is there to invent now but Earth? We need to know this in order to colonize Jupiters satellites anyway.
Money is color-blind.
And in fact it is money, capital, that is our only weapon against white supremacists and any other sumbitch thinks they have some kind of in-nate authority.
That is what it is a weapon against. What it is a weapon for, well, that is where the real beauty is.
'so it is impossible not to sense it as a derogatory term."
Fucking white people…
Nah but I couldn’t help myself. The truth is that true capitalism is incapable of discriminating. Even white people.
What must be crushed is the White Man as a political impulse.
Btw, yours is cute and playful compared to lefties. Zizek doesn’t do a horrible job of pointing it out, unnecesarily jargon heavy as he is. By claiming “universality,” they effectively make the distance between them and others even more absolute than race. Or try. Meanwhile, we laugh at them. Fucking white people.
You can tell it is political White Manism because protecting the rights of the “lesser ones” is far more important to them than money. It is itself a good excuse to regulate money, thus hampering the “lesser one’s” actual capacity to acquire money and thus the power that used to be reserved for kings and dictators and such.
Injens that identify with their tribe first, and make their cash “for the tribe,” are equally retarded. Make that cash money fool!
You seem to have a lot of thoughts going out to this.
You do take it a lot more seriously than I can.
Im just, happy to be what I am. Im sorry if others arent.
I admire most races, so Im free to also appreciate my own. For me, race-mixing is a beautiful thing.
Luckily in Amsterdam, Hispanic and black people arent in the least occupied with pitting themselves in battle against the White Man. Theyre just actually doing cool stuff and making money without being moralistic.
Indonesians, too. And people from Suriname are as “white” as the average Amsterdammer. Cant really see the color if you listen to the speech.
Racism is dumb.
Well shit. You make it hard for a motherfucker to argue with you.
I would say that what you are here presenting as rational and sane but personal preference is made law by capitalism. Not trying to imply that rationality and sanity are what drive the preference, such things are borne of taste, but they do happen to be sane and rational s’far as I can see.
God bless the U.S.A.