Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:52:33 +0100
Subject: Re: censorship


>
>Ok, as an Eminem fan, I've got to finally step in here. If he saw what was 
>being attributed to him on this list, he would free-style a rap that would 
>make even Kenneth blush. I don't know his views on Iraq, but to get at 
>what's deep down inside, all you've got to do is watch or read any interview 
>that has ever been done with him about his relationship with his family. He 
>explicitly and condemningly says in interviews that HE is the result of the 
>philosophy of the 60s. He especially emphasizes that his mother was the 
>ultimate 60s flower child, complete with multiple lovers whom she brought 
>home quite often. Free-love at its best. Just listen to his song, "Cleaning 
>out my closet," which is pretty much all about his mother. You want to talk 
>about anger - the rest of his songs pale in comparison. He says he tries 
>with every ounce of his strength to prevent his own daughter from growing up 
>in a similar situation, and that although he's not been perfect in this, he 
>at least admits it and can therefore change. The 60s generation not only 
>refused to admit this, but in addition actually advocated their way of life 
>as a philosophical utopia, complete with backing in the Communist Manifesto 
>itself. So Enimen is a self-admitted living, breathing, walking slap in the 
>face for the philosophy of the 60s, which was actually just an outgrowth of 
>a much earlier philosophy...
>
>Anthony Crifasi


Anthony,

When you understand the enimenic Eminem, there is also hope for me!
I fully agree with the above, esp. that there is something behind it, and from
"What is called  thinking", Heidegger makes it very very clear that that
consists
in the leaving out of the necessary crossover that Nietzsche demands.
Nietzsche has nothing to do with power games, but with the insight in the
necessity to bring ONESELF under ONESELF. We have to be BOTH:
the subject to overcome, and -somehow- the overcomer, or step-backer.
Maybe in the 20th century it was Churchill, who was closest to this, when
he said
that in the 19th century the leaders were great and the incidents small,
and in the
20th century the incidents great (gigantic) and the leaders small. Now,
things are
really going out of hand, and the leaders are miserable, but that is not
just their fault.  

You bet I know about cleaning out my closet, but do you know "White America"?
"The divides states of embaressment"? "F... you, mrs. Cheney!"? 

Rene








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