Wednesday, January 11, 2016
Apopthelema Entry 6 Part 2 by Kyle Nonneman
Apopthelema Entry 6 Part 2 by Kyle Nonneman
[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the link listed at the end of this entry.]
"I don't think Sotos' work needs to be upgraded or explicated by anyone,me included, and i think its inability to present the details and factors and signals that would facilitate an argument for its value as literature is one of the reasons it's among the most important writing being done today. It is scary, intense, ugly, honest, original, problematic, profoundly challenging stuff. It's also highly intelligent,refined and kind of a masterful example of writing at its most rendered and self investigating. All the more so because it's art refuses to give an inch to readers who need something conventionally beautiful,however offbeat to justify a book's assault."-Dennis Cooper
"These contemporary court artists, like many of past centuries, smugly pretend to spit in the eye of the exploiters while allowing themselves to be pampered,de-loused and when they arn't looking declawed.
The majority of these art and rock magazine styled rebels are playing out rebellion psychodramas to package and merchandise to consumerist sycophants. This strategy is the simulacra of terrorism: The content seizes in the frozen attitudinizing of pose and goes no further.
We must look to the true outsiders and not the would-be insiders for an artist truly capable of effective counter-terror against the insidious mantras of consumerist brainwash. Terror means a threat, and the outsider's version of Aesthetic Terrorism belongs to those performances or arrangements of words and pictures to unleash the reactionary impulses of police and bourgeois artist/critic alike . The kind of art that evokes this wrath,fear, and condemnation rejoices in the pagan spirit of schadenfreude which controverts the humanist piety of "enlightened victim". Anti-social sadisim rarely recives patronage, however. Outside the corrupting realm of societal handouts ,the Aesthetic Terrorist is the last bastion of aesthetic purity"-Adam Parfrey
I was recently accused of being close-minded and elitist. Allegedly my views don't allow for any dissension and this put me on the level of an ignorant fascist. This came from an individual who when asked about punk, brings up the eighties and name drops brand name acts that have little relevancy to the underground such as The Clash and Violent Femmes. Then, he prattles on about only caring about music and not giving a shit about the politics and the subculture. Which of course means they're simply a consumer who sees music as a consumer product to be purchased and consumed as a disposable form of entertainment. Not a lifestyle,not an identity, . Not a weapon of Aesthetic
Terrorism to fight against this world of shit and take back what they took away. No to them its just entertainment and a product.
They have no comprehension whatsoever of what lies beneath the pedestrian abyss of radio-friendly pop music. So when someone willfully chooses to sequester themselves from pop culture and sever their mass media feeder tube, consumer sheep will look at you like you're a fucking freak and close-minded. Because they don't know what your mind is open to. They don't know what exists beyond the simpleminded civilian shit played on television and radio. They're content with happy packaged sounds sold to their market demographic.
A sad fact is a lot of people who make ignorant claims of being open-minded and liking everything, are just conformist yes-men, afraid to step out of the herd and form a strong opinion about anything..
They're pop culture rape victims. Fucked so hard by pop culture they are too beaten and ashamed to take a stand on anything .
They're safe within their tiny fucking box and they don't color outside the lines, and they think this is being open minded.
They don't know a fucking thing about underground music yet they boast about their open-minded appreciation of all different styles of music.
In reality they just like all the different flavors of bubblegum sold to them .
It's as ignorant as saying you're a worldly eater and appreciate all different kinds of foods simply because you eat at all the different chain vendors in the food court at the mall ..... But never actually go to a restaurant or cook your own meals, let alone invent your own recipes...
These centroclines aren't fucking open-minded let alone appreciative of different kinds of music. No they're just sheep chained to a mass media feeder tube trying to put a dignified spin on their base ignorance.
Bubblegum is a sugary chemical substance mass produced in a factory. Giving you a short burst of sweetness before turning into a lifeless mass of rubber you can't swallow because it's indigestible and contains no nutrients. So you have to spit it into the gutter. Where it becomes litter...
So as such BubbleGum pop is an apt term for the shit they identify with. As the bovine herd conformists and peer pressure zombies that they are.
Like Ian Brady said, Individuality should be the highest value not servile social assimilation...
(contact Kyle at: http://www.writeaprisoner.com/template.aspx?i=z-16534211 )
