New Video: Kanye did Something Cool I Think

Yao,

It's Breeze. Whatup though.
Kanye made some cool video with Spike Jonez in the wake of the Taylor Swift ish.

Summary of the video:

Kanye stumbles around a club drunk, hears his own song and asks people if they like it in a way that exhibits his own massive insecurity, and then he harasses numerous women. In conclusion he vomits alone in the bathroom, slashes his stomach open, and confronts a little critter that he pulls from inside- his little perpetrator.

Everybody else worries about their image, and apologizes for missteps as if their blemishes constitute a fall from some imagined prior state of perfection (and you thought you weren’t religious). Kanye, though, embraces the concept of an image and makes no attempt to hide the elements that constitute it: egomania, self-loathing, raw ambition, regret, pride. Sound familiar? I’m guessing it does since that soup of emotion is probably what’s swirling around your own mind—you college educated 21st century American you. Nah? My bad I forgot- the manicured image you project to the world is identical with your actual inner monologue.

What’s the moral of the story? The moral is that sanctimony and visions of purity and perfection are for fascists (see: Mao’s China, Bush’s U.S., People magazine). So let’s all stop gossiping about the imperfections of public figures, and people we know, and turn an honest eye on ourselves first. Mark Sanders (a philosopher at NYU), when speaking of the South African population’s complicity in Apartheid, and ethical responsibility in general, said, “Drawing the attention of the public to the deeds of the exceptional perpetrator [e.g. government bad boys, “terrorists”, immoral celebrities] leads to a failure to recognize the “little perpetrator” in each of us”. In other words, the first step towards undoing the arrogance that allows states, or other organizations, to whip up the sentiment necessary to justify crusades is a commitment to self-recognition of imperfection – moral and otherwise - at the level of individual consciousness. If I'm not clearly good, then there is no one I can point to, in contrast with my clearly good self, as clearly bad, you heard?

Shouts to Kanye for recognizing the little perpetrator, preempting Hollywood’s witch-hunt, and making popular culture that's also art.