Kanye interview with Akademiks currently being live streamed. Kanye is wearing a full black KKK robe hat and all.

I will be honest with you guys, I kinda understand where he is coming from to a certain extent, because from his perspective there is no real discrimination against blacks right now, and so he is mocking the things that he believes no longer matter. The black Klansman thing aligns with his statement of "the black slaves should have freed themselves" that he has made in the past.

I consider this less Kanye being schizo ( The BPD gives Kanye the confidence to follow through it doesn't give him this new crazy idea. The idea was already there. ), and more Kanye's individualism and belief in black people being on equal footing crashing against the American social beliefs and group opinions in current year.

The very fact that in America you can expect many people to see this strong social value disagreement as proof of mental illness rather than a difference of values itself is concerning and to me suggests a pit/ darkness in the American mental health experience, where officially mental illness is associated with being unable to function in society, but in practice is translating into having the wrong opinion which will end up with people denouncing you.

At some point in the direction the system is headed, disagreement outside the social overton window itself becomes a form of mental illness. Kanye has to be mentally ill because normal people wouldn't hold this opinion in America.

This is the US further turning into a third world nation in its social output, where anything not related to the current cultural norms is treated as a disease and the concept of just being harmlessly strange no longer exists. Everything and everyone has to fit within the overton window or something is wrong with the people, not the narrow discussion space claimed to be the only viable space.

In a way it might even be a good thing to have things like Kanye in black face, because it helps weaken the current overton window for what topics can be discussed and forces people to have to deal with new opinions and ideas outside of opinions they agree with and opinions they already disagree with because that's what the other side believes, and forces people to interact with new ideas that haven't reached the American zeitgeist yet, and also aren't first pushed through and sanitized via government/ official channels.

The real crazy news isn't that Kanye West is in a Klansman costume, it is that Kanye West by doing so may indeed be closer to true individuality than any other American currently alive, and may have ended up being the realist person in all of America, not controlled by any political opinion or group consensus.

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