when the media masses and scholars talk about what started today. Here's a title ...— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 2, 2018
the overground hell road
Presumably, he's flipping the term "Underground Railroad" and it's related to his comments about mental slavery that we discussed here a couple days ago.
I thought the article linked here was an interesting take:
The Overground Hell Road: The Similarities Between Kanye and Gandhi Are Scary https://t.co/zw2aN5UKFy pic.twitter.com/IKx6UOBEjG— Benjamin Studebaker (@BMStudebaker) May 2, 2018
Why not say, more simply, "Overground Railroad"? Because the unhidden equivalent of the Underground Railroad would be taking you to freedom. The "Overground Hell Road" is out in the open. It's the destination that is hidden.
What is a "hell road"? For me, it calls to mind the old saying "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," which I'm pleased to see has its own Wikipedia article:
The saying is thought to have originated with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who wrote (c. 1150), "L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs" (hell is full of good wishes or desires). An earlier saying occurs in Virgil's Aeneid: "facilis descensus Averno (the descent to hell is easy)"....
Authors who have used the phrase include Charlotte Brontë, Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott,[16] Søren Kierkegaard,[17] and Karl Marx. Ozzy Osbourne used the term in the song "Tonight" on his album Diary of a Madman.
In the movie Highway to Hell, the phrase is taken literally to create one particular scene. The Good Intentions Paving Company has a team of Andy Warhols who grind good-intentioned souls into pavement....
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Remember all the Dems yelling about the Logan Act? https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/05/04/kerry-quietly-seeking-salvage-iran-deal-helped-craft/2fTkGON7xvaNbO0YbHECUL/story.html
Lefties take a timeout from declaring antifa to be the equivalent of our D-Day warriors storming the beaches at Normandy and declaring obama to be a god and hillary more qualified to be President than Goerge Washington to complain that praise for Kanye might be over-hyped.
Discuss.
It's Kanye's bad luck there's no Nobel Prize in Literature this year.
The good intentions of the welfare state have landed some people in the hopeless hell of drug- & crime-ridden public housing, so I think his wording is appropriate.
The first person I met who expressed support for Trump in 2016 was an older black man in deep blue Chapel Hill, of all places, so the Dems are right to be worried about K West. I don't like hip-hop or whatever they call it, but the man has balls.
"The Similarities Between Kanye and Gandhi Are Scary"
Hmmm, perhaps. But what is Einstein doing in there?
Buffy!
West has a big enough persona that Democrats are panicking.
This has to be stopped !
By Any Means Necessary !
Oh they probably figure there's no problem. He's black, he's a rapper, somebody will shoot him.
Here's how Dems deal with uppity Negroes intent on leaving the plantation:
"sometimes West talks out of turn and perhaps he needs some assistance in helping him to formulate some of his thoughts. We don't think that he actually means to do harm, but we're not sure he really understands the impact of what he’s saying, at the time that he’s saying it and how that weighs on, particularly the African-American community – and for young people in general . . . I understand that he is getting pushback from a lot of young people on the internet … but we're hopeful that his creativity will continue to be demonstrated in his work. And I think maybe he should think twice about politics – and maybe not have so much to say."
I think it’s hell road because of the hell one has to go through when pulling away from the progressive orthodoxy. The progs will put you through as much hell as they can work up.
Jesus, it's obvious. The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
Howard: "The path to hell is paved with good intentions."
And Cinnabons!
Curse you Cinnabons! Why do you have to be so good?!
Don't care who he likes/dislikes. Kanye West and the culture he represents is a cancer.
Blogger Drago said...
"Howard: "The path to hell is paved with good intentions."
And Cinnabons!
Curse you Cinnabons! Why do you have to be so good?!"
And pizza.
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