The Richest

September 20, 2022August 2, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

The richest

Who’s the richest man in the world? For years Forbes has stated that it is Jeff Bezos but I have never been sure. Sure, Amazon is a great company and it runs a monopoly. A great monopoly that sells virtually everything and knows you better than you know yourself. The acquisition of companies like Alexa and Twitch makes it a force to be reckoned with, but I still think its stock is too inflated. Don’t get me wrong I think Jeff Bezos is an absolute genius who specializes in internet companies and a visionary who can forecast into the future. He has smart investments in his portfolio, futuristic investments like the purchase of Twitch. He bought Twitch for $970 Million, he knows e-sports is the thing of the future. We have more examples of Bezos futuristic thinking, he was one of the founding investors of Google investing $1 million in 1998. He was one of the first people to see the potential and now Google is the pulse that runs the world. In addition to Google, he invested $15 million into Twitter in 2008 and today they are evaluated at over $22 Billion. He also invested $3 Million into Uber and now its stock is worth $300 Million – a 13233% return on investment, not bad for a day’s work. The acquisitions of organic food company Whole Foods Market and the space company Blue Origins is just brilliant. People are becoming more health conscious and are watching what they eat, the purchase of Whole Foods Market Is in line with that reality. There’s also the small fact that we want to inhabit Mars in a couple of years making us a multi-planet species. The acquisition of Blue Origins to rival SpaceX just makes sense and provides a great opportunity to make a lot of money. Regardless the question has to be asked. Are his assets liquid? Or are they just paper assets? Jeff Bezos recently had a divorce and had to part with 25% of his Amazon shares. He initially had 16% and gave his ex-wife 4% which amounts to $38 Billion. Isn’t that a bit steep? Don’t you think Amazon shares are over evaluated? Don’t you think they are inflated? Granted, I may be underestimating Amazon but I don’t think I am. I don’t doubt Bezos business acumen, I think he is the JD Rockefeller of modern times. He runs Amazon like Standard Oil, he buys the competition or he butchers them. No one even comes close, he is ruthless. He is one of the best businessmen in the world. Still, his investment portfolio is over 60% of Amazon and if indeed Amazon’s stock is inflated that would make him the richest person in the world – but only on paper. Something behind the door is being done to inflate those shares, maybe his issuing out shares like how banks just create new money. I seriously doubt that he could give away billions to charity like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. And if he can’t is he still the world’s wealthiest man?

Half of Bill Gates portfolio is Berkshire Hathaway. Interestingly he doesn’t own a lot of Microsoft shares. In the year 2000, during the big tech crash he sold out most of his Microsoft stock to diversify his portfolio to protect his net worth. I think that’s so intelligent. Throughout the years Warren Buffet had been a rival in the list of the richest people in the world. Buying Berkshire Hathaway shares worth billions is a great way to nullify the threat and the best way to diversify your portfolio. And because Warren Buffet is considered to be the greatest money maker in the world, success is virtually guaranteed. It was a chess move for Bill Gates and it speaks volumes of the respect he has for Warren Buffet. You see by owning so much of Berkshire Hathaway, Bill Gates is an owner of everything Warren Buffet owns. Berkshire is a holding company that owns shares and stocks in a lot of great companies like Coca-Cola and Apple. Berkshire’s stock are not inflated and its assets are liquid. That’s the major difference between a Jeff Bezos and a Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. Berkshire owns companies that pay out dividends and they own these stocks/shares for the long haul. The returns from these companies in a form of profit or dividends can pay for themselves essentially making billions for Berkshire for nothing. Bill Gates owns a lot of stocks that pay dividends on his portfolio, companies like; Waste Management, Canadian National Railway, FedX, Caterpillar, Walmart and a lot others. Bill Gates loves Dividend stocks because they earn him money virtually every day and they pay for themselves, freeing up capital to use for other projects or securing more assets. This is the reason Bill Gates and Warren Buffet can give away billions to charity and still have billions. They are indispensable. The billions they make are not tied to their net worth, it is simply free capital that they can afford to give away. Since 2000, Warren Buffet has given away over $46 Billion to charity making him the world’s most charitable billionaire in the world. While Bill Gates has given away $18 Billion to charity since 2000. I seriously doubt Jeff Bezos has the capability of doing that not because of moral obligations but because it would cripple his net worth. With time, I think he will be able to do that.

The richest man in the world is Bill Gates for the diverse stock he has in his portfolio. Through Berkshire he owns some of the greatest and best companies in the world including Coca- Cola, Apple and Amazon. On his own he owns Stocks that are unmatched by competition standards and yield consistent figures. For example, pundits predict another market crash and maybe it will happen but Bill Gates won’t be affected all that much because of the choice of stocks he has chosen in his portfolio. Even when the stock market crashes, people still need to dispose of garbage – Bill has a Waste Management company. Even when the stock market crashes, people still need to eat – Bill owns Walmart. Even when the stock market crashes, people still need to travel – Bill owns a railway company. Even when the stock market crashes, people still get thirsty and Bill owns a company that packages soft drinks like Coca-Cola. The companies in Bill Gates portfolio have a big competitive advantage. Most of them pay dividends and they are relatively defensive, prone to external forces like the stock market crash. Honestly, I think his the most intelligent businessman ever. The greatest money maker in the world is Warren Buffet – for it is he who makes half of Bill Gates money. Warren Buffet is a freak of nature, someone who understands the business world in its entirety, he is immersed in it, it is first nature to him. He is a practical man who understands human nature and lives in the real world. Warren Buffet is a visionary who invests over the long haul. He dissects companies to the bone before making a decision. He is supremely intelligent, an informed man. A man who makes money for a living. My observations are that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and that Jeff Bezos is not far out. Jeff Bezos will be the undisputed richest man in the world, his investments and portfolio predicts and suggests that. If the Amazon stock is not overvalued and inflated then he is already that and will never be toppled. On the contrary, maybe Mark Zuckerberg has a chance. Since 2005, he has dominated the internet and how people perceive reality. He is young and has made impressive acquisitions. He will be the one to challenge Jeff Bezos and I think he will win.

Speaking of overvalued and inflated, I think one has to address the elephant in the room, Tesla. During the Covid-19 pandemic it elevated Elon Musk to the helm of the richest people in the world. Elon came from out of nowhere to beat everyone in the top 10. It looks like sustainable energy is finally bearing fruit, Tesla has been doing exceptionally well and are the benchmark for electric vehicles that are a sure thing for the future. Let’s not forget that Elon recently purchased Twitter in its entirety and turned it into a private company. Never mind everything said in this post about the other billionaires; Mark is cute, Bill who and Jeff is a has been – Elon certainly looks to be the man. His wealth is still accumulating in the 200 billions and it is widely forecasted that he will be the world’s first Trillionaire!

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Quentin Tarantino

September 19, 2022June 29, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

Quentin Tarantino

I have been a Quentin Tarantino fan all my life. From “Reservoir Dogs” all the way to “Once upon a time in Hollywood”. Admittedly, my first Quentin Tarantino film was “Kill Bill” in 2005. I remember the day like it were yesterday. It was on a Friday and it was playing on M-Net. The next Friday, M-Net would play “Kill Bill: Volume 2”. I watched both of them and my life was changed forever. It was film-making I had not seen before. The visuals blew me away, they were exceptionally great. They had a tendency to linger in your mind long after you had watched the movie. So clearly, I always remembered the “Pussy Wagon” and that epic yellow Bruce Lee jumpsuit that the bride was fighting in. That yellow jumpsuit is so iconic, it is memorable, it is imprinted and permanently engraved in the fabric of film – it is amazing creativity and vision from Quentin Tarantino. The fight on the snow between “Cotton-mouth” and “The Bride”; the atmosphere was so smooth and quiet – it was full of serenity and “Cotton-mouth” was in all-white complimenting the snow. The contrast in that fighting scene is amazing because it ends in blood and death. The anime scene on is something that hasn’t been done in film before. It is so epic! He incorporated Japanese taste and culture into the film. The film is surreal. It is a blend of different traditions and cultures infused into this one craft about revenge. The music, the Samari sword fights, the characters, the gore violence, the awesome dialogues, the authentic creativity and the underlying chaos that manifests itself when you least expect it – Quentin Tarantino knocked “Kill Bill” out the park. “Kill Bill” is cinematic excellence. It is an experience you will never forget. It is supremely entertaining!

What I love most about Quentin Tarantino movies is the professionalism. The characters are usually professionals that need to do a job and as such “morality” is exempted in the equation. Every action is justified. Quentin Tarantino doesn’t want you to morally judge his characters. There is no hero in a Quentin Tarantino movie instead he shows you different perspectives of different characters. To communicate this he uses nonlinear storylines and gives the characters in his movies more or less the same screen time. In this way there is neutrality for the professionals who serve as characters in his films. The story on “Reservoir Dogs” follows professional criminals who plan a heist, among them is a police officer who is undercover. The duality of the character of the professional criminal/police officer is the underlying chaos that gives the story its texture and the unpredictability and uncertainty of the plot – it is a texture that gives the story a feeling of “anything can happen”. We also see this type of double-agent play on “Jackie Brown” when a middle-aged flight attendant woman serves as a mole for his criminal boss and also as an informant for the police so that they can apprehend this criminal boss. Jackie Brown strategically plays both parties and in the end, walks away with a lot of money. The duality in the characters of Quentin Tarantino is a common feature in all his films. Again, we see Butch, a promising boxer on the highly acclaimed sophomore movie “Pulp Fiction” win a boxing match despite the fact that he was paid big money to lose. The match was rigged and Butch makes more money from bets. Something that makes his boss big Marcellus Wallace go on a manhunt to catch Butch and kill him. We also see this duality on “Inglorious Basterds”, Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight”. These characters are not what they say they are.

Further what makes a Quentin Tarantino movie unpredictable is it’s historical inaccuracies. Quentin Tarantino has a knack for changing historical events and telling his side instead. On “Inglorious Basterds”, the basterds kill Adolf Hitler in the premier of “Nation’s Pride” to end WWII. He over-stimulates the plot and adds his homemade spices. This he does for the sake of the viewer, to entertain and create an experience. He doesn’t mind letting the viewer know that we are watching a movie with characters in it. He is over the top and believes violence creates a better cinematic experience. So, in his movies more often you will see violence just for the sake of violence. Violence with no relevance or use to the plot of the story. A perfect example of this mindless yet entertaining violence can be seen on “Kill Bill” and “Django Unchained”. However, the thing that makes a Quentin Tarantino movie is the dialogue. The dialogues of his characters are unconventional in the sphere of film-making. They are often long, free-flowing and have nothing to do with the plot of the movie. They are entertaining, funny and reference a lot of popular culture as seen on “Pulp Fiction” when we are introduced to Jules and Vincent for the first time in that iconic “Royale with Cheese” dialogue. The opening scene of “Reservoir Dogs” when the professional criminals talk about “Like a virgin” and “Tipping” is the best thing you will ever experience on a movie. In his dialogues, Quentin Tarantino explores social conventions and ideologies – he is provocative, philosophical, engaging, thought-provoking and humorous. At heart, Quentin Tarantino is really a fan of films and movies. He approaches a film with the intent to dazzle and blow you away. He is a genius who can spin anything. This is seen on “Django Unchained” when the slave, flips the script around and becomes the hero who kills evil white men for money. Django also rescues his enslaved wife and literally blows-up the plantation. “Django Unchained” is a perspective we hadn’t seen when it comes to the subject of slavery. It was fresh, daring and exquisite. It was a different narrative, a perspective that was out of the box – it was a typical Quentin Tarantino movie. The characters were all professionals of their trades; a bounty hunter, a seasoned slaver and the house nigga. “Django Unchained” was grand and bold. It incorporated everything Tarantino, it had a Western theme, professionals, double agents, unpredictable and underlying chaos, gore violence, great dialogues and awesome soundtracks.

Quentin Tarantino draws his inspiration from other movies. He states that he copy’s from other movies. From camera angles and techniques to Western stand-offs. To movie sets in other movies to the costumes. His genius comes from the fact that he is obsessed with movies and the subject of film-making. Being obsessed, he incorporates what he loves from other movies to his to elevate them to greatness. All his films generate a cult-like following because of the fresh air they bring to the world. He always seems to resuscitate the film world with every release. The release of “Once upon a time in Hollywood” makes me sad because it’s almost time for him to close the curtains. His next movie will be his last. It’s hard saying goodbye to a legend, to a genius. The world is not ready, I am not ready. I wish we had more time. But it’s fine, at least I have all your movies. They have brought me so much happiness in the past and because they are classics, I have no doubt that they will carry on doing the same in the future. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything Quentin. Thank you for sharing yourself and your genius with the world. Thank you for giving us classics. Thank you for making me love movies. You started everything for me. I know creativity because I saw a Quentin Tarantino movie when I was 9.

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Martin Scorsese

September 18, 2022June 30, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

Martin Scorsese

No one is better than Martin Scorsese. His films are just wonderful. They are bliss. He has this ability of making you identify with the bad side of the hero. The undesirable, repulsive, murderous, greedy side of the hero. His films dive deep into human psychology, they challenge morality, they make you see the other side – they make you think, what if? You feel a Martin Scorsese film. It is in your senses. His camera shots are amazing. Remember the 360 view on “The Wolf of Wall Street”? It drove me crazy! I felt like I was in the offices of Stratton Oakmont. My mind couldn’t understand what was going on or how he had accomplished that. What was the thought process? That 360 view was an attempt to make the viewer experience the madness first hand, to get lost in the chaos. On “Goodfellas” he uses a continuous shot that illustrates the hero’s powers to seduce. Henry takes his girlfriend Karen on a date at this underground spot and the camera follows from behind. To get to this restaurant they navigate through a lot of chaos and make a lot of turns – turns that make Karen dizzy. Henry pays someone $20 just to open the door to Karen’s amazement and when they finally get in, a waiter organizes a table just for them. The place is a full house, filled to the brim with esteemed people. It makes Karen feel so important and she is induced with this euphoria that takes her to heaven. That scene is the ultimate definition of seduction. Martin Scorsese uses a lot of camera techniques in his movies to make them legendary. He uses a lot of freeze frame shots to illustrate the importance of a scene and slow motion to freeze time. He has that ability – to freeze time, imagine that! What about his insecure masculine heroes who always chase these beautiful, ungraspable blondes? The blondes have become a theme in his movies that the hero always projects on. We see the use of slow motion to communicate how time slows down when these heroes meet or see these blondes. These blondes are mystical and perfect. On the “Wolf of Wall Street” one of Jordon’s friends states “I’d let her give me AIDS” upon seeing the blonde who would go on to being Jordon’s wife for the first time. On “Casino”, Ace’s world slows down when she sees Ginger – the blonde she would later marry for the first time. The heroes have self-destructive tendencies that ruin the lives of these beautiful blondes and they always leave the hero alone and dejected. The heroes have jealous streaks, they are control freaks, they are violent and they are driven by their impulses. Martin Scorsese forces us to see the bad and evil in ourselves. The violence in his movies is so explicit, so real, and so horrendous. On “Casino” we see a man senselessly beaten with baseball bats before he is stripped off his clothes and buried alive. In his movies, he makes you feel like “the man” through the hero and then strips you off all that power, leaving you with nothing. On the “The Wolf of Wall Street” he perpetuates all the greed, the drug use and random sex of the hero before taking it away. Jordon Belfort, loses everything – the money, his estate and his hot blonde wife. He also goes to jail and is banned from his profession, Investing. On “Goodfellas” Henry loses the lifestyle, respect and acclaim that comes with being a gangster. He also gets arrested and lives out the rest of his life at a Police Protection detention system. “Cape Fear” is about a guy who has moral justifications for ruining the life of the lawyer who didn’t fight for him in court when he was trailed for rape. Max Cady, the convicted rapist goes on a psychopathic rampage – he targets, stalks, kidnaps and torments the lawyer’s family. It is Robert De Niro at his most frightening and sadistic, he is sick but you understand him. Your understanding comes from the experience of also being wronged. Just like how you understand Jordon Belfort’s greed. If you were granted everything you have ever wanted, wouldn’t you go a little overboard? Martin Scorsese explores the human condition. He challenges the viewer to really think. There are also these rich and authentic dialogues that his characters always engage in. The dialogues are so entertaining. The dialogues are always in “real time”, it doesn’t feel like they are exchanging cues – they feel natural and flow. And what would a Martin Scorsese movie be without the narrator, the voice over that propels the story to greater heights. I love it – the narrator is the hero and he always speaks in the first person, so you can understand his mind and thought patterns; so you can hear the heroes insecurities and dreams. It is so powerful. It links you to the hero whether you like it or not, it is done at a subconscious level. Now to hate the hero means to hate yourself and the ego won’t allow that. So you watch the movie with complete objectivity. Martin Scorsese bewitches your mind first and then strings it along. The soundtracks on a Martin Scorsese movie are just awesome. Those rock n roll songs, they are iconic and signal a change in the plot or a characters plan of action. I see a lot of technique in Martin Scorsese’s movies. I see his passion through his movies. I see the mathematic equations, he just takes me straight to movie heaven. I love that guy. I love his creativity. I love the subjects in his movies. I love his impartiality. I love how he explores human nature and flips the script of the hero. The best flip of the script of the hero can be seen on “Silence” where the hero is reduced to suffering until death. He is forced to abandon his belief system and values and he is indoctrinated into foreign systems. I appreciate Martin Scorsese’s’ vision. In my humble opinion he is the greatest film-maker of all time.

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2014 Forest Hills Drive

September 16, 2022November 24, 2025 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

2014 Forest Hills Drive

What an amazing album. It starts off with a beautiful intro with J. Cole serenading us to the album. The intro is metaphorical in the sense that Cole is also introduced to the world by this voice underlying what life on earth is about namely happiness and freedom – things that people in the world strive for in vain. We can say the voice is mothernature preparing J. Cole to the world. The intro is smooth, patience and nurturing. Then just like that J. Cole is dropped into the world on January 28th. The date signals the date of Cole’s birth. It is not the first time a rapper has done this: Jay Z on the Black Album released in 2004 does this on “December 4th” the song is also preceded by a short and reassuring intro too. On January 28th Cole reintroduces himself to the world by showcasing his skills on the mic setting the tone for the album. The beat is cool and easy-going and the hook is iconic. On the hook he talks about “Don’t give them too much you” and he ends up giving all of himself up in the album. From his earliest years to the Cole who has made it and conquered the world. January 28th is personal and ambitious as he warns everyone and lays claim to the crown proclaiming that he is a God.

After he is born he takes us to his first sexual encounter on Wet Dreamz with a girl that he was in school with. He tells the story off a young Jermaine in pursuit of his first piece of ass. The story-telling is impeccable. He tells the story in the first person, second person and third person. A similar technique he used on “Lost Ones” on his debut album “Cole World: Sideline Story” where he gets his girlfriend pregnant and is not ready for all that responsibility. His girlfriend has her say on the second verse and she explodes with emotions and a lot of hurt telling her cowardly boyfriend that she doesn’t need him and that she’ll raise the baby all alone. Similar to “Lost Ones” – there is a lot of vulnerability on Wet Dreamz as Cole admits to the listener that he is indeed a virgin but she can’t really show that. We also learn on the third verse that the girl was also a virgin. The song is a masterpiece! I love how Cole maintains his “Rapper voice” despite the vulnerability and uncertainty in his lyrics, the contrast in those two elements are amazing.

In his philosophical works Carl Jung talks about the Anima and Animus. He says we are all born neutral in terms of sexual orientation. A hypothesis backed back the godfather of psychology Sigmund Freud who famously stated that the “libido” is bisexual. Meaning we are born in the world with both male and female traits and it’s 50/50. Because there are standards and an order in the world certain traits are repressed to conform to the norm. So for example a young boy is taught from a very young age that sensitivity and emotions are not a very seductive element. Or that a lady doesn’t wear pants or go hunting. Stereotypes often repress this Anima or Animus. Anima according to Carl Jung is the female side to the male and Animus is the male side of the female. Carl Jung explains that we must access our Anima and Animus in order to reach our subconscious mind and that Anima or Animus will give us untold creative power! We see examples of this with Coco Chanel, a designer who created female apparel but got her inspiration from male clothing. She would simply alter man’s clothing and present them as women clothing and she attained great power. We also see this from Urban Artists like Drake who are able to reach into their Anima to create music that is appealing for both male and female. Through the Anima, Drake controls popular culture every time he releases a single or album. Drake redefined what it is to be a Rapper by adding vulnerability and emotions to his songs.
J. Cole on “Wet Dreamz” reaches through his Anima and the result is devastating. He created a song that will last forever! A song everyone will be able to connect with through infinity. J. Cole himself is not a stranger to connecting to his Anima and that has given him untold power and set him above everyone else as he often does it with impeccable story-telling and mind-boggling metaphors. There is a misconception about tapping into your Anima or Animus – it does not entail that one is a homosexual. There is no such thing as “homosexual” or “gay” or “lesbian” – only homosexual acts! We are all children of mothernature.

After the masterpiece Cole takes us to his years as an adolescent on “03 Adolescence”. He is growing up in the world and beginning to understand how the world operates. He is very observant and sees the struggle of the people all around him. He is young and energetic and beginning to create and identity for himself. He sees the system as a trap and doesn’t regard 9 to 5 as an option – he would rather push with his homies. We gather from the second verse that he is a very likeable guy as he has a conversation with one of his homies. In a conversation with his friend, he salutes him and tells him that his doing pretty well from himself and he would like to join him. That he needs the money too. His friend disapproves and gives Cole a tongue lashing that he will never forget, it is an honest tongue lashing, one with a lot of love and worship. Cole takes the lashing and commits himself to being the best person he can be – not for himself but for everyone who has a dream but can’t reach to it.

On a “Tale of two Citiez” Cole is slapped with the reality that life is hard. He is now in New York City and everything is fast. He has dreams of making it as a Rapper and becoming rich. But the reality is that he is poor. Nonetheless, he is striving and fighting. The city is so harsh and cold not like Fayetteville where he is from. The hook of the song talks about how he was robbed and that he doesn’t blame them because he understands the city and its rules. That the street is like the jungle and only the strong survive. He internalizes this information to make himself a better person – a more informed person as he strives for his dreams in the big city.

“Fire Squad” is a reflection of how far he has come. At this time he has perfected his craft and in his own mind is the best to ever do it. The song sounds like it too. The beat, the lyrics, the bridge, the bold declaration, the speech, and the iconic “who’s the king?” rhetorical. It is a skillful song that is charismatic, unapologetic and assured. It is bold and in your face. It is easily one of Cole’s best songs ever! It is this song that takes him to Hollywood on “St. Tropez”. St. Tropez is the interlude of the album, the transition in Cole’s life. “St. Tropez” is somber, reflective and nostalgic. It feels like destiny. The lyrics are full of adjectives that are abstract that are backed by melodies and reflective horns and the sound is beautifully intertwined. It feels like a dream about a trip you have been waiting for all your life. A moment created by the stars – the moment when the Universe finally smiles at you and gives you a thumbs up. “He’s on his way, he’s bout to get paid, he’s on his way to Hollywood” I love it!

On “GOMD”, Cole makes it in Hollywood and all his dreams come true but at the cost of his soul as he starts to lose it. He gets tangled in a meaningless world and he doesn’t recognize the person he has become. He reflects on “Love” and “Happiness” the focal point of the intro and decides he now wants to pursue that. That he wants the simple life. For the second time in the album Cole changes and returns to his roots. He now sees everything clearer and is knowledgeable. Hollywood is to thank for that. Hollywood was the catalyst. Hollywood saved him. He maintains the same tone until the end of the album.

Now Cole is in pursuit for Love and Happiness. On “No Role Modelz” he meets girls that don’t fit the profile. He meets girls that are shallow, narcissistic and materialistic. Knowing Hollywood so well he cites it and blames “Reality Shows”. He explains that this is the life that these women have chosen and trying to save them is a waste of time. It is the make-up of their fabricated and plastic psychology. Cole explains that they are empty and being with them won’t make you happy. A theory he knows firsthand from his transition to “Hollywood Cole” to J. Cole as exhibited on “GOMD”. Cole doesn’t feel petty for them and moves on with his life.

He decides to rekindle an old relation on “Hello” but finds out that she has already started a new life. Cole tries to reach out but to no avail. The hook is an emphasis, a cry out for attention and it is repetitive and effective in creating a tone full of melancholy. The dark chords of the piano also emphasize and tie the mood together. What now for Jermaine Cole? He decides to redirect his love on “Apparently” and talks about his mother. The chords are striking and up tempo. It is a sweet and grand gesture that is heartfelt and full of love. He is reflective and honest.

On “Love Yourz” Cole comes to the realization that everything in the world is temporarily. That everything fades and no amount of material can make you happy. He recommends being content with what and who you are. He advises the listener to practice love in their loves. To be around people who genuinely love you. He recommends taking charge of your life. He advises the listener to stop comparing and live life the best way you can. He is philosophical in this message and it ties the whole album up. He extends this message on “Note to Self” when he states “Nothing matters, you’ll see in the end”. He uses the existentialist approach in conveying this message. He gave us his whole life in 13 songs. The album is philosophical – it teaches you how to live. It is art. It is tied together. It is forever!

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Nietzsche II

September 15, 2022June 29, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

Nietzsche II

I think that Friedrich Nietzsche is the most beautiful person that has ever lived. He was incredible! I love Nietzsche. He was very peculiar, so out the box, so passionate. There’s so much meaning in a Nietzsche sentence; he was so skilled at painting a picture with words. You could feel the passion in the words – he used exclamation marks like they were full stops. And with every sentence you feel your spirit getting uplifted, you feel yourself becoming a better person. He is such a gift to humankind. “What doesn’t kill you, will only make you stronger” oh my goodness! That is so Nietzsche. He believed to really exist is to manifest your talents and virtues – “Becoming the person you really are.” It’s so amazing that he had all these thoughts considering that he lived in isolation most of his life. He was cheerful and upbeat for a person who suffered so much. He lived alone and was beastly sick throughout his adult life. He was rejected by the woman he loved after he proposed after an equivalence of 2 dates. He was an observer of human nature and a big reader. In fact doctors warned Nietzsche that his excessive reading and writing would make him blind. One of the philosophers he loved reading was Arthur Schopenhauer – a German philosopher who was so dull. Schopenhauer’s philosophy in my opinion has no end goal, no practical usage or element that can transform your life. It’s basically “Life is suffering” or “Why bother doing anything at all”. Here is a passage from the philosophy of Schopenhauer: “But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream cannot be worth any serious effort.” Not that his philosophy isn’t useful, I read and enjoy his work so did Nietzsche. I am just surprised that it didn’t depress Nietzsche like it depresses me. He had the most remarkable spirit. He recycled Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy and made it better, made it practical.

He also read Socrates and Plato. He didn’t agree with their ideas at all. In his very own writings he would viciously attack and disregard their theories. In his philosophical works Plato once stated: “The purpose of this earthly existence is to liberate one’s soul from the confines of the body and have it return to the reality of forms.” You see Nietzsche didn’t believe in “True World Destinations”. A true world destination is to enter a state of eternal bliss, a heaven, paradise or utopia. Hence true world philosophies give meaning to life by representing it as a journey, a journey towards redemption, towards an arrival that will more than make up for the stress and discomfort of the travelling. Socrates believed that the world was metaphysical and that it was more than this world of senses. Nietzsche believed that this notion devalued the world that we live in – that it was an excuse, an order to retain no goal, no reason, no task for our earthy reality – an attempt to try and escape the suffering that’s imminent in the world.

Because life is suffering. That’s the irrefutable truth. It’s clear. It’s basically what God tells Adam and Eve, immediately after he kicks them out of paradise. “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:16-19. KJV)”

All the religions and philosophies of the world are in unison when it comes to this. Hence the inventions of “True World Destinations” to nullify nihilism. However, Nietzsche doesn’t believe in true world destinations – he believes in holding your destiny in your own hands by molding it and creating it to what you desire it to be. In a scathing attack to Plato on one of his books he said “Plato is a coward before reality, consequently he flees into the ideal.” Nietzsche believes the metaphysical world or true world destinations is a world fabricated solely from psychological needs. He believes to imagine another, more valuable world is an expression of hatred for the world that makes one suffer. Nietzsche believes in the idea of self-actualization –the concept of becoming who you are and that requires truth and self-inspection. For one to remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of other worldly hopes. Interestingly, Nietzsche doesn’t completely refute the existence of the metaphysical world – his on the fence on this one. He simply states that we should make the best out of the apparent world. A fair and justified point because no one has ever returned from heaven to tell the tale.

Nietzsche also loved art! He appreciated it. On one of his books “The birth of tragedy” he stated “The truly serious task of art is to save the eye from gazing into the horrors of the night and deliver the subject by the healing balm of illusion from the spasms of the agitations of the will.” My goodness! Another quote “For there to be art, for there to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological precondition is indispensable; Rausch! Rausch must first have enhanced the excitability of the whole machine: else there is no art! Rausch is a German world that means Intoxication and it basically means two things. Namely Rausch is the feeling of increased strength and fullness and the great stimulus to life! My goodness Nietzsche, you kill me every time. His words were so animated and full with life and passion!
Since Nietzsche believed in the concept of self-actualization and becoming the person you are meant to be. He had this beautiful phrase namely “Amor Fathi” which translates to “The love of fate” which means to accept the past with enthusiasm! To embrace the past, for it contained the building blocks that helped to create the person today – to move forward with a courageous spirit and great zeal. Nietzsche believed in individualism – for it is individuals who act! In one of his books he stated: Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river: but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: Where does it lead?” Nietzsche was provocative, he forced you to think and make decisions that benefited you as an individual. His philosophy taught you how to live as an individual in the world.

Nietzsche beautiful Friedrich Nietzsche predicted the Western world in the 21st Century. He predicted the death of God and the end of Christianity on his classic work “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. “The end of Christianity – at the hands of its own morality which turns against the Christian God. The sense of truthfulness and mendaciousness of all Christian interpretations of the world and of history; rebounded from “God is truth” to the fanatical faith “All is false””. Oh Nietzsche you killing me! The start of widespread nihilism and trend of false prophets. He also talked about the herd in the 21st century where everybody wants the same thing, everyone is the same: whoever thinks otherwise goes voluntarily into the madhouse. And he gets around to “The Last Man” – “The condition of a people which has lost faith in its ancient history and has fallen into a restless and constant search for novelty after novelty”. Oh my goodness! Shocking! He perceived our world exactly. He hit the nail on top of the head. I mean the rife and outrageous consumerism, the inability of people to control their impulses and resort to instant gratification – the freely available pornography on the internet, Apps that enable us to get sex on the go, internet shopping, junk food on the go and a people who just want to be entertained all the time be it by Television, Social Media or Partying and excessive alcohol consumption because they want to be distracted.

Nietzsche described the last man as someone with no goals and no direction. An individual who is uncultured and has no sense of identity. A couch potato who has everything at a touch of a button. A person who is drowned out by the herd’s ideals and opinions. A useless person who’s life revolves around being entertained, excessive consumerism and watching online porn. A person who is merely born without roots. He states “The sense of well-being of a tree for its roots, the happiness to know oneself in a manner not entirely arbitrary and accidental, but someone who has grown out of a past as an heir, flower and fruit.” It’s incredible to read considering we are already there. So many people are passive in their activities that they don’t realize the destructive consequences they have. Internet companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are all vying for our attention. Our attention spans decreased from 15 seconds to a lousy 6 seconds in a period of 10 years. This is due to the fact that there’s too much information that we are trying to break down. Every time we are on the internet, data is extracted from us. Algorithms know us better than we know ourselves. We spend an average of 4 hours on the internet every day bombarded by people’s thoughts and opinions that we lose sense of who we are. We lose our voice like we are in a stadium with the final of the world at play. Everything is readily available on the internet. Seduction has become a dead art. Nihilism is at a highest as religious institutions are losing their grip as a number of charismatics are forming their own cults and religious entities. The age of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is gaining momentum relieving humans of their daily tasks – the effect is felt worldwide. The last man epidemic is becoming rife by the minute. In his works Nietzsche stated: “When an individual no longer feels like they are the collaborator, let alone the center of becoming nihilism becomes a very real possibility.” With the emergence of AI humanity is in trouble in more ways than one.

Luckily Friedrich Nietzsche has a solution for this by becoming the “Übermensch” which translates to Superman or overman. “I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All gods are dead: now we want the Superman to live.” Übermensch or Superman is an ideal to aspire for – it is the hero in your soul that you have to keep holly. It is the will to want to do something, to be something! It requires direct self-observation and honest self-appraisal, it requires history for the past flows on within us in a hundred waves. It needs bravery. It requires being individualistic in your actions. Located in every single person is a seed of unrealized potential. It requires greatness. The concept of greatness entails being noble, wanting to be by oneself, being different, standing alone and having to live independently. It can be shown that every living thing does everything it can not to preserve itself but to become more! Being the “Übermensch” entails being MORE! Protect your mind! Improve your mind! Write down your goals and get busy with them – live, be content with who you are, strive, flourish! Our most primal inclinations are to be Gods – be God! Human existence is a curiosity – explore! Nietzsche stated in his book: “For the heights that one scales when one is able to look into the dreadful abysses of life, to experiment with the most painful thoughts and the most extreme form of nihilism and still be able to emerge from such depths and affirm life – saying YES to it in its totality is arguably the highest state a human being can attain! “

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Women

September 14, 2022June 29, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

Women

My goodness where do I start? I think women are great. When I think of women power comes to mind. I think they are better than men. Maybe “better” is unfair and unjustified but give me a moment I haven’t concluded my statements as of yet. I just think they are a sophisticated species. Everything about them; their built, their ability to multi-task and the chaos they bring to the world. It’s wonderful chaos, progressive chaos, muchly needed chaos that brings about growth and prosperity in the world. They are the underlying motivation behind man’s action – the perfect courtier, the puppet master, Gods’ wife! That would explain why Adam and Eve ate from the tree of life. God made man to be conscientious and orderly, to obey his instructions. And he did a great job. Man by nature is conscientious and orderly. Adam alone would have never eaten from the tree of life. Even if you substitute Adam to a Steve Jobs – a creative individual who is open minded and thinks outside the box – he would have found a pear tree or a lemon tree to pick fruit from. The dynamic changed when Eve was introduced to the picture. God never anticipated to be defied in that manner. He didn’t understand what was happening, he was confused. He was disappointed in Adam and didn’t understand Eve. Not that humanity blames God – no one understands women, women don’t even understand women. Maybe Gods mother understands. The true creator of everything – nature, the universe, life.

She has certainly given women remarkable powers. I mean to be the gatekeepers of life – wow! The remarkable ability of multitasking; women can cook, do the laundry, help children with their homework, clean the house while listening to music, save the world from monsters and fly at the same time. It’s not an exaggerated statement – their ability to multi-task is unbelievable! Men by contrast can’t multi-task. We can’t kill 2 birds with one stone – that’s a term concocted by women and they most likely killed 2 birds with one stone. When men are doing something as menial as boiling an egg – the door is closed, there is no interruptions, the TV is off, the data option on our phone is off, it’s us with the egg and the stove. Once the activity of the egg is completed, life can carry on. We can’t do two things at once and maybe that’s a good thing because it enables us to focus and do the task very well. This is depicted in the PIXAR Animated Movie “The Incredibles 2”, where Elastigirl is totally incredible! The character “Elastigirl” personifies what it is like to be a women. Even her catch-phrase “I’m flexible”. She can be a parachute, she can be a sling-shot, she can be boat, she can stretch to far places, she can fly, she’s a mom who has 3 children and a husband, she’s hands-on and she saves the world from “The Screenslaver” – Oh, she absolutely saves the world on “The Incredibles 2”, there’s a scene where she’s chasing a runaway train on her bike and the scene is so intense, she’s communicating via radio with Evelyn and they are brainstorming ideas on how to stop this train, it’s trilling and nervy and she might not get to the train resulting in the death of many civilians – at the heat of all that she receives a call from his second born child Dash who wants to know where his shoes are, she answers the phone call, helps Dash locate his shoes and then gets back to chasing the train. She eventually gets to the train, stops it and saves lives – she’s incredible excuse the pun! The best superhero EVER! Mr. Incredibles’ power on the other hand is strength – just strength, it is a specialized and focused superpower. He tries to operate in a domain other than his designated field when he took on the mantle of taking care of the children and he dismally failed because it required a lot of multi-tasking. Not that we blame Mr. Incredible, taking care of a baby with multiple superpowers, helping your son with Maths homework and regulating your daughter’s feelings who is in adolescence handling boy problems is a tough task.

Women do a lot of things better and at once – while we men do one thing exceptionally well. I don’t know which is better. I love how they control the power dynamics too. They enjoy real power! They are subtle and indirect in their methods. They often position themselves as nurturers, comforters someone who will listen to your problems and help. Someone with patience and devoid of judging prowess. Angelic guardian angels who assist in times of distress. “Mother Theresa” – someone who gives more than takes. They have this wonderful ability of regulating emotions and making you feel good when you were in a torrid place psychologically. They do it with a hug that is emphatic, a hug that makes you feel that everything will be alright. A hug can make you open up more, to reveal yourself up more, to free yourself of the mental chains, it can strip away your power, and it can make you vulnerable. Women have so much data on the people close to them. Data that can destroy lives. Data that can make you an outlaw. Data that can cripple. It’s remarkable power! They deploy effective strategies. In a lot of instances their statures or physical built helps them get into a position of power. Their statures can act as object of desire or frail entities that are powerless in a man’s’ world (The Gandhi approach). Either way, it is effective. On the Etv Telenovela “Scandal”, Kgomotso Christopher plays the role of “Yvonne Thebe” an ambitious, seductive young lady who often uses men to get to the top. She plays on their repressed desires by promising to be the best they have ever had. She uses her body as an object of desire and usually compliments it by wearing dresses that are solid in terms of color, bold and seductive – colors like red, yellow and black. She is able to disarm powerful men and make them do whatever she wants. She’s the paramount of power! Another tactic that is effectively used is that of submissiveness. Like Gandhi, they know and understand their strengths and weaknesses. They use their weakly statures to progress their agendas, they lose the physical game to win the psychological game. They dominate while seeming weak – they are able to feed the man’s ego and indirectly make him do whatever that she likes.

There is something also awesome about the female reproductive organ. Something that could only be created by Mothernature. It reinforces the theory that they are indeed nurturers. I find the male reproductive organ interesting too. It’s like they co-exist. Like one is useless without the other one – isn’t that amazing! Basically it’s a hole that invites the male reproductive organ in. It’s accommodative. It’s warm. You just want to stay inside all day – maybe that’s why we in the womb for 9 months. There is an exercise called the Kegel exercise and basically what it does is to strengthen your PC floor muscles. After pregnancy, women use it to tighten the vagina area – it is not just for pregnant women, any woman can use that exercise to tighten. Once the PC muscles are developed, the vagina grips the penis tightly enhancing the sensations felt by the duo. You are inside and it’s affirmed, it is spiritual, it feels like heaven, it is amazing! The science of it all. The female opens or stretches her legs and the man goes in. Do you understand that process fundamentally? It states that man is destined to be woman’s bitch. It states that woman is in control. Woman is top of the hierarchy. Woman is the most powerful! And because life begins between the legs of woman – it is fundamentally correct. I think that’s one part, one story but a lot of hypothesis can be concluded on that. The world wouldn’t know what to do without women. However, it is equally true that the world wouldn’t know what to do without man. For man represents order and convention and women well like I stated at the beginning chaos. We need both order and chaos.

I think that man has noted the remarkable power that woman possessed. Work has been introduced to nullify that power with the emergence of AI (Artificial Intelligence) I really think it’s humanity last invention, the destruction of family structure, nihilism, the centralization of the world, the love of all things expedient and the disconnect from nature. It has crippled Mothernature’s will – she’s no her last legs, her days are numbered. Man has broken her. The natural order doesn’t exist anymore. Everyone is confused and history is not enough because it has been altered by conquers. Human interactions are at a minimal and all emotion is bottled up. Women have abandoned their posts to make their mark on a fabricated virtual reality. As a result of that, power has been redistributed to man and his destructive ways. All animals are equal – how could we fall for that? Life has become a series of George Orwell’s books – first it was Animal Farm with Feminism and Gay rights and now 1984 with Facebook and Google. How were we so distracted? Mothernature will never forgive us for this! Throughout history humans have made bold statements about the generation they belong to, and it has always been met with the same sentiments, the argument has always been the same – they always outlined reasons why their generation is best and why the current generation is rotten to the core. People who always state this are people who are clinging on to the past and won’t accept the present. Its justified and a phenomena that has happened ever since. A generation is 20-22 years and within a given time; 4 generations live to form a Zeitgeist – the Zeitgeist is the believe or customs of a specific time, the last 2 generations are stuck in their ways and content with the information that they have attained during the course of their lives. Then there is a generation that is struggling to adopt to new customs and beliefs prevalent in the current world – some are rigid and refuse to be swayed around by new customs but most are struggling. Then there is this new generation, fresh, new and hungry to make their mark on the world. They introduce new things and more innovative things to the world – they see the world in their eyes. Throughout history Mothernature has been consistent in providing this data. However, for the first time in history all generations are in unison about the future of coming generations. It’s a tone of concern and uncertainty. This tone comes from the depression in the west, the lack of self-identity, nihilism, expediency and the act of falling into novelty after novelty all of which has no meaning and direction in the realm of life and self-actualization. All this is due to increase exponentially and we just don’t have an answer on how we are going to solve this.

The world is marching towards uncharted territory, territory that is fabricated and created by a few men – men with enormous resources and power. Men who are excluding Mothernature out of the equation and creating a new type of life. Was this the direction of becoming? Was it on Mothernatures watch? Did she anticipate this or it’s been God’s plan all along? Man put Mothernature out of a job and retired God’s mother. Does God have a chance or is he dead like Nietzsche hypothesized? I take back my prior statement of the first paragraph, I think woman is great but man has no competition – yet! For man controls reality, controls perceptions, forms tastes, starts ventures, gives life to objects and although single-minded his execution is unmatched and unrivalled!

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808’s & Heartbreaks

September 13, 2022June 29, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

808’s and Heartbreaks

“I bet if I give all my love, then nothing is gonna tear us apart”. That line marked the peak of romanticism and its entrance into hip-hop. It’s a very naïve statement, one that is subjective, hopeful and detached from reality. It is as if Drake has taken love heroine; it is impulsive and desperate – it drips of anxiety and wishful thinking. In an age of romanticism, it is beautiful hence its success on the billboard charts, it peaked at number 1. This song comes off Drakes debut album “Thank Me Later” and the title of the song is “Find Your Love” written and produced by Kanye West. Kanye West is an amazing artist. He ushered in this new sound and made hip-hop lyrics more descriptive, more abstract. Sure, we had artists like Common who could paint pictures with their words and use words to evoke feelings but Kanye went a step further – he could do it with beats to create a mood, an atmosphere. He brought something new to hip-hop, something fresh. He was so innovative. He is the greatest creative of our time.

In 2008, he released his fourth album 808’s and Heartbreaks. It was completely new from anything he had ever done before. It was risky. However, romanticism had been at its peak. We had songs on the radio about love dominating. The Romantic Comedy genre was booming and Hollywood was hard at work. Love and romanticism was popular culture. This was reflected when Jay –Z, hip-hops biggest and greatest star released a song titled “03 Bonnie and Clyde” in which he proclaimed “All I need in this life of sin, is me and my girlfriend”. Tabloids and magazines went crazy with the idea, Jay –Z had proclaimed to the world that Beyoncé was his girlfriend – it was amazing, mystical and majestic! Once again, Kanye West was at the heart of it all – it was he who produced “03’ Bonnie and Clyde”. So there was a destiny to the release of “808’s and Heartbreaks”. Being Kanye, the album had to be different and fresh – a sound no one has ever heard before. To do this, he had to deconstruct the Rap genre only to reconstruct it again. For this album he would use all sort of drums, melodies, auto-tune, deep, heavy strings, keyboards and pianos. His lyrics were melancholic, desperate, full of loneliness, dread, rue, resentment, sometimes hopeful and optimistic but detached from reality. It was such a grand idea – mind blowing concept but only execution mattered, he was in unchartered territory and only excellence would do and it did!

The first track of the album takes off from “Find Your Love” in the sense that he gives everything to this girl. Instead of reciprocating she’s distant and makes half-baked promises. You see this girl doesn’t really love Kanye and eventually he sees this and breaks up with her. “Say You Will” is about Kanye venting out his troubles and anxieties. Kanye is caught up and in a world of his own. He is sad and wishes things were different. Kanye wishes that this girl loved her, this is reflected in the lyrics “I admit that I, still fantasize about you”. The chorus “Hey, hey, hey don’t say you will, unless you will” protests and confronts but he does this subjectively in his mind because his alone and contemplative. The looped beat is symbolic of how pathological promises are and it communicates that Kanye West is locked in trance – a world of his own. Further, it sets the mood of the album and preheats the listener to the sound of the album namely that it will be rich in melodies, drums and sorrowful lyrics and venting.

The album commences with the second track “Welcome to Heartbreak”. The song starts off with heavy strings that communicates anxiety and distress. The lyrics are full of disappointment and the notion that everything always goes wrong. The song features Kid Cudi who is known for moaning and groaning in his songs. He gives the song edge and his tone compliments the song’s texture and sorrowful melodies. The song is the equivalence of “why always me”? The song that follows is “Heartless”, it tells the tale of how Kanye West met a girl who changed his life. A girl who showed him human nature. He describes her as cold and devoid of a heart. The beat is up-tempo, repetitive and easy on the ear. This is a dramatic turn from “Welcome to Heartbreak” and it sets the mood for the upcoming songs. We can assume that the girl he is referring to on Heartless is the same girl on “Say You Will” because not delivering a promise has legitimate grounds to being heartless especially in the context of something so complicated as love. Again, the song is in the first person indicating that Kanye felt a direct injustice – something covered on “Say You Will”.

The fourth track “Amazing” takes off from the upbeat and up-tempo “Heartless”. It is endorsed by powerful kick drums and complimented with soulful melodic keys. It is your typical Kanye West song. It is strong, affirmed, assured and a confidence booster. The song is egotistical and narcissistic. He prides himself to being a great prize. The use of “amazing” as an adjective communicates superiority and being number one. It is an infectious statement and one he says no one will ever take away from him. It is the rare moment in the album where he is upbeat and confident of himself. The next track “Love lockdown” is about the glory of falling in love. How it can hypnotize and keep you in a trance. The song is up-beat, rich with multiple drums and complimented with piercing keys. It is musical, cohesive and concise. It sounds like the best day ever! It is an iconic song, the first single of the album.

The next song “Paranoid” is a tale of the common ground most relationships reach in this era of romanticism. Namely, that everything is great at first and you are in love as exhibited on “Love Lockdown” but as time goes on you get fed up with one another, you fight, get irritated by one another and ultimately hate one another. Kanye West explores the obsessive nature of relationships in this phase – it is only natural in this era of romanticism that when you love someone, you want to possess him/her and know everything about that particular person. Spying and surveillance becomes the norm. At this stage of the album Kanye West is rational stating “You worry about the wrong things, the wrong things, you worry about the wrong things.” Once again, his contemplative.

He continues contemplating on “Robocop” and tables a “pros and cons” list. He discovers a lot of bad than good. Kanye feels confined, restricted cooped up in her little cell. He describes her as a “drama-queen” and questions why she is always surveilling him and checking everything! Kanye West at this point is fed up because she never stops – she likens her to a Robocop an entity that’s suffocating and challenging his freedom with no recess. He states that she is crazy, but he loves that about her, however it’s not enough. He makes a decision to leave her and cites the reason as her being a “Spoiled little LA girl.”

Now single on “Streetlights” he is optimistic about life again. He feels liberated. It is as if for the first time in his life, his alive and it excites him. He realizes for the first time that everything in the world ultimately fades and he wants to experience life. As an individual, he has goals and destinations that he has to go to and his hoping the streetlights will illuminate the path for him. The song is optimistic and has a good feeling about it. A departure from the earlier songs in the album. The beat is energizing and forward-going. The melodies are more golden and spirited with plenty of life. The song is soothing, motivated and beautiful. At least that’s what it sounds like, despite the optimism of the beat, the golden and rich melodies, the song has a terrible and dark anti-climax. There is an internal confliction – the beat and the melodies are a deception. While Kanye feels like he has done everything he could to get to his destination, he remains stagnant and he is left a frustrated figure. Ultimately confessing that life is not fair. The realization that maybe the streetlights lead nowhere. He questions his life – he questions his destiny.

Kanye once again drifts off into melancholy on “Bad News”. He once again contemplates about the girl on “Say You Will” and thinks about her betrayal. The fact that he loved her and she wasn’t emotionally there for him instead she had somebody on the side. Kanye West sees everything in blue and this is reflected with the violins and other strings in this song. They emphasize Kanye’s sadness and paint a picture of rue and heartbreak. He just can’t stop thinking about her. The power of melancholy is that it enables you to reflect, it slows you down and takes the will of life out of you, leaving you in shambles and tatters. At this point of the album Kanye West feels broken.

On the next song “See You in My Nightmares” we see a different Kanye. He is resentful and angry. The anger in the song makes him passionate and forceful. Anger is the next stage from melancholy because it enables you to act. He takes out all the hurt and confusion of the album in this song. The song is grand and bold. It has synthesizers that echo and robust hip-hop beats with additional vocals from Lil Wayne. It is a therapeutic song for Kanye West in the context of the album. This song will help him move on. On the last track of the album “Coldest Winter” he makes peace with everything and falls in the background of the hard, hitting drums. On “Coldest Winter” he bids goodbye to the girl in the intro whom he loved. However, a powerful realization just came to me, he could be bidding goodbye to his mother who died round about the same time he created “808’s and Heartbreaks”. He states “Good bye my friend, I won’t ever love again. Never again” – that’s powerful and it sheds important insight to his frame of mind. Of course, Kanye can “love” again via romantic relationship and he has done with Kim Kardashian – but when your mother dies, that’s it you can make that powerful declaration of not loving ever again. No one is like your mother. A masterful creative project from Kanye West! So emotionally charged and beautiful in a tragic way. One of his best albums. People 50 years from now will listen to it and think “WOW”!

The hidden track of the album “Pinocchio Story” is a very sophisticated song. It is very lively and intelligent. It covers the topic of existentialism – the meaning of life. Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who has a lot of questions about life. He lacks a self-campus and seeks to find self-worth from the outside world. His deep hatred of himself makes him want to be a “real boy”. Kanye West uses Pinocchio as a metaphor to communicate his worries and troubles – to make a connection between the “real” and the abstract. Kanye West questions the validity of life, its essence, its fabric and whether the life of fame is worth it. He looks at his own life and notes that it’s too material and those worldly assets are making him empty inside. He feels like a wooden object devoid of emotions like love – like Pinocchio. There’s this comical irony in this story; Pinocchio seeks a self-identity from the outside world and Kanye West finds nothing from the outside world instead, the outside world makes him empty and feeling worthless. Since Kanye West is already a “real boy”, he feels being alone with himself again will make him “real”. In the context of the song “real” is the ability to love. He doesn’t find answers in the song, his just being thoughtful and thinking out loud. His confused about life and the meaning of it and he consults with a wise man who advises him that one day he’ll find his way.

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Infatuations

September 12, 2022June 29, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

Infatuations

I think an erection is the best compliment you can pay someone. For it communicates, you excite me, I love you, you drive me crazy! It cannot be hidden, it is phallic. The moment when psychology and physiology are perfectly aligned. It is too awesome. I liken an erection to an infatuation, they are similar in a lot of ways. Firstly, they are a product of the mind and they both need the mind to fill in the blank spaces. Infatuations are a strong desire for someone and well the same criteria is met for an erection. They are both passionate and mystical in the realm of the universe. An infatuation is love, it is a projection, and it is seductive. Popular culture as has attached a sinister connotation to the word seduction and it’s completely misleading. Seduction is arousal, seduction is sexy, seduction playful energy, seduction is stimulation for the mind, it is indirect and unguarded, it is filling in the blank lines, it is reading between the lines, it is subtle and it is for the imaginative. When you are infatuated with someone, all you do is think about that particular person. You make them bigger than they actually are. You project all your dreams and hopes onto that person. That person becomes the best thing that has ever happened to you. When you are infatuated, you become ultra-attentive to that person, you are focused, motivated to find out what makes her tick. The revelations you get are ground-breaking and you want to internalize them hoping that it will bring you closer to her spirit, her energy. You become trapped in a world where she is the elusive woman of perfection and that further seduces you making her a god-like figure. Detached from reality you fail to see the disappointing truth. Infatuations bring light to this dark world.

Human beings have this weird ritual they do when they are in love. They call it kissing and it is strange and so risky. What they do is to lean forward towards one another making their lips touch and often exchange saliva in the process. It is a form of embracing one another. What this ritual is about is acceptance. Meaning, I am letting you invade my space and be all up in my face because I accept you and trust you. It fosters closer relations. It is effective because it is consensual. It sparks neural circuitry in the mind thus inducing the feel good substance in the brain known as dopamine. This process makes human beings feel closer. It also excites the physiology of the participants. When the physiology of the two participates is excited and aroused, it often leads to coitus. Coitus or sexual intercourse is a release – the moment when your impulses take over and you lose control, this is trigged by the amygdala. However, sex has an interesting complex namely the human dilemma whereby we often separate life in two realms – mind and body. We see the two entities (mind and body) as separate and we desperately want to see them as one. Sex without empathy negates the personality (mind) and objectifies the body. Lovemaking is, at its best an act of mutual empathy, at its worst it lacks any such emotional mutuality. Sex without empathy is not sexy, it is not seductive, it becomes mechanical and an outlet vent out your frustrations of the world – and it shouldn’t be because it is a mutual undertaking. One of the things I love about infatuations is that you want to please the partner you are infatuated by and as such you will pull off all the stops to make the activity worthwhile.

Sex can be a complicated endeavor to enter into. Namely because you want the activity to be enjoyable for the parties involved. Most of the time, you can write off the activity as a success if both parties reached orgasms. It is a tricky thing for men to impart to their female counterparts. For men, penetration into the vagina will most of the time do. However, penetration for women is often not enough. This is because of their neural circuitry. By trait women and men are different. This is noted in the ways boys and girls play when they are young. Boys are threatened by anything that might challenge their independence so they play in big numbers and their insistent is on competition. While girls by contrast are more threatened by a rupture in their relationships so they play in small groups with their insistence on quality and thoroughness. As such, women often need special attention to reach orgasm. Sigmund Freud once stated that penetration was enough to give a woman an orgasm but that’s such a manly answer isn’t it? I mean it works for us, surely it will work for them. Sometimes, it happens but it is not the most effective way to do it. To give a woman an orgasm, you need imagination – to play in the realm of the mind. After a long seduction process in which gratification was delayed and the mind was stimulated sure, an orgasm through penetration is likely but still not a 100 percent. Cunnilingus is the best way to do it. I will explain.

From a young age, girls are exposed to their own mortality. This happens when stages like menopause begin. It is a scary and confusing dilemma for a young girl, some are embarrassed. However, something happens subconsciously looking at their own mortality they draw-in into themselves, they train themselves to look at the world with a naked eye, they become more emotionally attuned, they can distinguish what’s right from wrong, they become grounded and they plan better – they become conscious, while by contrast boys are playing Grand Theft Auto and not taking anything seriously. It is the fundamental difference between boys and girls. Cunnilingus like the act of kissing is acceptance but acceptance multiplied to a hundred. When she allows you to go down on her, it communicates trust with her body. She’s vulnerable, naked and completely at your mercy. She’s trusting you with her insecurities. You have a complete grip over her mind. Cunnilingus is mind magic, it is mind witchcraft, it is a spell for the mind – a trance, it’s unwritten, it’s abstract, it’s seductive, it’s metaphysical and out of this world! When you are engaged in Cunnilingus, there’s attention, there’s focus and the will to do it right. Cunnilingus serves underlying desires and fantasies. Cunnilingus will give her an orgasm every time.

The danger about infatuations is real life but then again erections become flaccid – nothing lasts forever. The positive news is that we could refresh, a second erection is a real possibility. Infatuations give us a platform to build something substantial. They are passionate, impulsive, subjective, chaotic and beautiful. For if we can move from the initial infatuation stage to compassion and understanding we will have a concreate relationship and we will have a chance to recreate that infatuation stage since it is a product of the mind. We can create an infatuation loop that will be eternal. By withholding sex and keeping our clothes on whilst remaining affectionate with another, touching, kissing and “dry-humping”. Another thing we could is send nude pictures to one another not too explicit though we have to leave much to the imagination of the brain so it could fill in the blank spaces like a crossword puzzle. Maybe instead of penetration, Fellatio, that will leave every man in the face of this earth grateful! Maybe I wanted you for your body at first but you can show me a different dimension, a different perspective, a different angle that will enable my mind to lust over – to obsess and think about when I am alone. We could drive each other crazy all over again. We could be reborn and transformed. Infatuations are the most beautiful things in the world because they point out something about you – something transformative! In this age of romanticism that should be the first thing that is ticked off from your box. Infatuations are a spark, that juice, that light that has the ability to illuminate your world. An infatuation is love at a very basic level – that’s when you know you are in love when you are infatuated with someone. Reciprocation is a different thing, to love someone who loves you back is rare but luckily we have seduction! Anyone and everyone is immune to seduction with time. Concentrate your efforts to the one you are infatuated by!

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Because The Internet (Life as a troll)

September 11, 2022June 29, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

Because The Internet (Life as a troll)

Popularizing the internet was met with a big problem, that it would generate an existential crisis within the population. The internet would unlock so many dimensions and doors for the mind that it would struggle to distinguish reality from fables. Not that the internet would cause a cognitive decline but rather that the lines would be so blurred and so thin that reality and the internet would objectively constitute as one. Unsupervised, the internet would be a black hole, sucking humanity off its roots into an abyss – uncharted territory, for the mind to find its feet in a world of subjective space. However, the internet had been humanities greatest achievement. Our denial of death resulted in the concoction of forever. With the advent of the internet we could do whatever we wanted. It was a terrific tool. Communication barriers would be bridged. Entertainment widespread and rife and instant gratification would be the norm. Not making this available to the general public would be the greatest injustice in the history of humankind. It would deem us primitive in the context of time. Humanity needs this leap to fulfil what our soul’s desire the most – immortality.

In 2013, Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino released an album titled “Because the Internet” and it is about the struggle between real life and the internet. The album sounds like it is staged on the internet, like a blog – it is subjective yet crowded, authentic and reflects the times of this recently constructed timeline of the internet. It is scattered with different sounds and music, indicating the vast and different worlds on the internet. On the song “II. Worldstar” Gambino, mocks people who spend most of their time on the entertainment website (worldstarhiphop.com) watching fights instead of engaging with life. The album explores existentialism, the meaning of life, death, boredom, depression, love and fabricated happiness. He uses the internet as a metaphor to contrast it with life, especially with the notion that life is a loop. To communicate this point he makes the first track of the album and the last seconds of the last track on the album the same. The album loops and ever ends indicating the subjects covered in the album form part of a repetition in the game of life and the internet. Lupe Fiasco testifies on this sentiment on his hit single “Old School Love” when he states “Your future is somebody else’s past”. On the last song of the album he makes a bold declaration indicating that the internet and life is one of the same thing and that there’s no major distinction – life is a troll and the joke is on us. His words echo Horace Walpole who once stated “Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.” Glover extends his sentiments on the comic nature of life when he states “Funny, the day you born that’s really your death sentence.” The internet has the power to preserve and immortalize your spirit but once you are gone, your spirit is looped in the realm of time creating a pathological order in the world: so much for immortality, the joke is on you, for if you elevate your perspective you’ll see yourself as a grain of sand on a dessert. There’s no such thing as immortality.

You have to marvel at Glover’s intelligence, the album is a masterpiece. The internet has devoured reality perceived through our senses. What constitutes as reality is no longer objective but subjective. The Internet used to be abstract but it’s a very real thing now. Reality is blurred. The internet has immersed itself with our senses. We have become cyborgs – one with our smartphones that are connected to the internet and artificial intelligence. We cannot live without the internet. It has opened up doors that are impossible to close. Galaxies that are impossible to count and personas that need to be fed. We feared the internet would turn illusions into reality, we feared that it would leave us disconnected, we feared that it would make our minds passive, we feared over indulgence would lead to addiction, we feared that it would leave us lost – and it has, it has done everything and more. But it is still one of the coolest things we have invented. Life has improved, we have developed into a multifaceted species with god-like powers! When we finally get the meaning of life it will be because the internet – just kidding! There is no meaning.

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Lord Jesus Christ

September 10, 2022June 29, 2022 / antakalipa / Leave a comment

Lord Jesus Christ

Lord Jesus Christ is one of the few people in history who had a consciousness that calibrated at 1000 energy level. He was an enlightened man. He preached the word of love and peace. Even when death stared him right in his face, he embraced it and mastered the art of dying. On the cross, when he was tortured and beaten ceaselessly he prayed for the forgiveness of man – he prayed for mankind. He didn’t feel sorry for himself. He didn’t ask God why me. He didn’t ask for God to save him, he never asked God to show himself. He was accepting of his fate. I think that’s remarkable. He had reason. He had willingness. He was wise. Socrates another enlightened individual who was killed for supposedly corrupting the youth of Greece shared the personality traits of Jesus Christ. When he was trialed, he refused to defend himself. He just let things be. He had a willingness about his fate. He was accepting. He had reason and he perfected the art of dying. He was at peace with everything. He was happy and ready to die. He had done everything he could do for humanity. He shared his wisdom. He made people aware and self-critical of themselves. He got people thinking and talking about their ideas. He knighted Plato and Aristotle with his wisdom and knowledge and still had the presence of mind to state that the wise man is the man who admits that he does not know anything. Incredible insight! He also preached love and peace for humanity. It seems as though humanity has a problem with enlightened figures.

Life is energy. Life is information. It seems as though Jesus Christ and Socrates had the right frequency. They were one with life. They were grounded in the reality of life. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung stated that the “psyche” which means spirit or soul comprises of the consciousness, personal unconsciousness and collective unconsciousness. Collective unconsciousness is the spirit of everything in life, it is the pulse of life, it is the culture and period we are born in to, it is the different ecosystems of the world, it is our collective consciousness as life that is hidden but dictates everything that we do unconsciously every minute and moment of life. Figures like Jesus Christ and Socrates understood this fundamental aspect of the reality of life and that enabled them to have courage. Through courage, they learned to stay neutral and open, seeing and experiencing life with new eyes every day. Now that they had courage and neutrality they had the confidence of partaking in life, they had the willingness to live and share their experiences with life. They grew to understand and accept being with all of its conditions and structures. Through acceptance they learned how to reason. Through reason they discovered the most fundamental aspect of life – namely love, for love nourishes the soul of the universe. Love has a positive frequency that exuberates when emitted. Love unites. Love is the one single force that has the power to change the world. They understood that only love brings true joy and fulfillment in life. Through love and joy, you can find peace. Peace is a beautiful phase to reach because it entails that you are one with the pulse of life. Peace entails freedom. At the conscious level of peace, death is not repressed but rather in the open. You are aware that it might happen any day and you are content with it. Peace is an encounter with pure and unadulterated happiness. And through peace, you find enlightenment. The world follows people like Lord Jesus Christ, Socrates and Lord Buddha among others because of their status of being enlightened – and it’s useful because they make us better individuals, they bring us solace, they lift the burden of existence from our shoulders. Their lives are dedicated to the salvation of all humanity.

Existence is a burden. Existence is a challenge. Life consists of suffering, boredom and death. This is a fact, it is a fate we all share. Depression and nihilism are and have always been the epidemics of the world. We see this in the 20th century, where people like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao ran totalitarian regimes. It was bad. We came close to extinction. People were killed for entertainment, for fun, to generate statistics. Joseph Stalin, once stated “one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths a statistic.” These were men with no moral compasses. They tortured human beings for experiments. They tortured human beings for their amusement. They were men overly intoxicated with power. They were egotistical and narcissistic men. They were men with deep underlying insecurities. The world was run by Pride and pride calibrates at a conscious energy level of 175. Pride is dangerous. Pride is critical. Pride is blind. Pride is Shame. Pride is guilt. Pride is confusion. Pride is fear. Pride is hatred. Pride is hopelessness. Pride is falsehood. The lack of a campus resorts in a man operating in the lower levels of consciousness. Life starts when you operate at a conscious energy level of 200. The level of 200 is courage. Below the conscious energy level of 200, is all things run by the amygdala, it is survival and fear driven. War generated this atmosphere of dog eat dog world – a world where nobody was save.

It seems as though Christianity is a good idea. Lord Jesus Christ dedicated his life for the betterment of humankind. He was an enlightened man and his ideas calibrated at 1000. Christianity managed to do the impossible. It proclaimed that every man is equal regardless of status positioning, wealth, gender and race. It gave women rights in a world where they had none. Somehow, it managed to level us all. It preached the importance of love and the idea of sharing. The concept of sharing is a very sophisticated idea for it teaches one about the delay of gratification. The idea that if I had two pieces of steaks and only needed one, I can give one steak to my neighbor with the realization that one day in the future my neighbor might give me a piece of steak when I had none. It is a concept that teaches you how to negotiate with time. Through the crucifixion of Christ, it taught us that life is suffering, it taught us about love and gave us the assurance that everything will be alright. It taught us peace and taught us how to embrace life and death. It even created a Utopia, a heaven to help us with the process of dying and to give solace. Christianity taught us how bring our hopes and dreams into the world by means of praying. Praying is another sophisticated concept where you concentrate all your forces and energy into something in hopes of bring it to life. Energy is involved in the process of praying so it brings it out into the universe, into life, the world. Because you prayed for it, it exists in the world – all you need to do is to put some more energy into it and it will reflect on to the world. Praying is the law of causality – isn’t it a beautiful concept? Christianity and the ideas of Lord Jesus Christ should be practiced for the improvement and perfection of one’s soul. Christianity is an extremely subjective practice. Its insistence is on the spirit of the individual. If a few individuals are regulated and fulfilled, it generates a ripple effect by virtue of association making everybody happy and fulfilled. A positive wave length is contagious!

There is a story in the bible about brothers Able and Cain. They are the children of Adam & Eve. The first humans ever. Adam and Eve were created by God whereas Able and Cain are the byproducts of Adam and Eve. It tells the story about how God was happy about one brother’s (Able) contribution and unhappy about another’s (Cain). Cain does everything to impress God but he does it in vain as he is met with Gods disapproval. Whereas his brother Able impresses him with ease, without much effort. This makes Cain grow resentful and angry towards his brother Able. Worse, is that Able is genuinely a good person, everyone likes him and women always want to be around him. Cain cannot find fault with him, his authentic and perfect and that makes him grow even more resentful and angry towards his brother. His resentment and anger leads him to Satan and he is drawn to Hell. Cain overpowered by emotions of envy, jealously and anger decides to kill Able. He does it to spite God, to spite the world by killing everything he wants to be. How did things become so rife? Everyone has a contract with God and you fulfill your contract by being you, by doing the things that come natural to you, by being authentically individualistic. By being yourself, you honor God and it pleases him, he becomes happy about your contributions. Cain was so envious of his brother that he didn’t honor his contract with God. He was not an individual. He lacked a self-campus. He wanted to be like his brother and that displeased God because he didn’t create a replica of Able. God also wanted Cain to be himself, to self-actualize, to impose himself on the world and show his true character and virtues. God wanted Cain to honor him by becoming himself. However, Cain’s heart was tainted and impure. Once he started having resentful thoughts about his brother, they took a life of its own. By continuously having these thoughts, he fed the beast until it lead him to a point of no return, Satan – Hell. Satan is not a red beast with horns on his forehead just like how Hell is not a place filled with fires and demons. Hell is a state of mind and you get there by feeding negative emotions. Negative emotions are not conducive to life. They are destructive and inhospitable. One must always aspire to go to Heaven. Heaven is a fertile place for growth. Love lives in heaven and there’s progression and growth. Heaven is stimulating and conducive. Heaven is the state of mind we should all strive to be in.

The two brothers were in two completely separate wavelengths. They were in two different worlds. One brother was in Heaven while the other was in Hell. One brother was with God while the other was with Satan. It is a useful story because it educates us about envy and self-actualization. Envy calibrates lower than 200 energy level. It is primitive and destructive. Envy is vain and self-sustaining, it feeds off other negative emotions and energy levels. Envy is unintelligible and insecure. Envy is prideful and hopelessness. Self-actualization on the other hand is above the conscious energy level of 200. Self-actualization is courage. Self-actualization is learning. Self-actualization is willingness. Self-actualization is reason. Self-actualization is freedom – the ability to embrace God and thank him for the gifts that he has bestowed upon you. Self-actualization is enlightenment, the process of knowing your purpose in life and fulfilling it. Self-actualization is the most beautiful thing God has given to us. We should strive to become who we could be and negate the external factors of the world. We should be truthful to ourselves at all times. That’s how we give praise to God. That’s how we show him that we are grateful for the gift of life. That’s where Christianity comes in, God has given us his son Jesus Christ to teach us about the virtues of life. He gave us Jesus Christ to enlighten us, to make us pure, to give us hope, and to complete that void in our hearts. I am not talking about organized religion, organized religion has made a mockery of the Christian doctrine, it has polluted and stained its ideas, it is the reason for the nihilism and depression in our world, it is the reason we are devoid of goals! I am talking about subjective Christianity, Christianity for your spirit and soul as an individual, for yourself. I am talking about Christianity as an ideal we should strive for!

Energy Level Calibrations:
Energy Level: 20 Shame
Energy Level: 30 Guilt
Energy Level: 50 Apathy
Energy Level: 75 Grief
Energy Level: 100 Fear
Energy Level: 125 Desire
Energy Level: 150 Anger
Energy Level: 175 Pride
Energy Level: 200 Courage
Energy Level: 250 Courage
Energy Level: 310 Willingness
Energy Level: 350 Acceptance
Energy Level: 400 Reason
Energy Level: 500 Love
Energy Level: 540 Joy
Energy Level: 600 Peace
Energy Level: 700 – 1000 Enlightenment

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