Posted on 09/10/2017 10:01:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Before analyzing Kid Rock as a cultural phenomenon, we first have to spend some time with the Frankfurt School, a group of European academics who rose to prominence in the mid 20th century. No, seriously.
The word "dialectic" gets thrown around enough to warrant some clarification. Now used primarily as a pseudo-intellectual shibboleth to refer to social changes, the philosophical roots of the modern concept of dialectic are surprisingly important. Dialectic describes Hegel's idea that as society moves toward its perfected state, it must resolve internal contradictions – issues that cause social unrest and then lead to social change. According to Hegel, this process was inevitable and outside human control, and this idea, grounded in the economic sphere, would be adopted by Marx and serve as the foundation of Marxist thought.
The actual outcomes of the Marxist revolutions – despotic and impoverished regimes – were of course hardly the paradise predicted by Marxist dialectic. (If you see Marxist described as "Marxian," by the way, you know you're dealing with a Marxist.) Add to this the fact that even Marx himself was likely aware of the special economic conditions in America – a relatively large and fluid middle class – that made socialist revolution unlikely, and Marxist dialectic found itself in serious need of a revision. The supposedly inevitable "scientific" unfolding of "scientific socialism" (Marx's own term for his philosophy) insisted on not unfolding properly. What's a socialist revolutionary supposed to do in the face of a traditional society that stubbornly refuses to collapse? Well, you change the rules. Enter the Frankfurt School, and in particular Herbert Marcuse. After all, why wait for the social tensions to appear? Why not identify and magnify them?
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"And he keeps on smashing New Left social divisions. For the New Left, gun ownership should be associated with white males, tools for their continuing oppression against women and minorities. But the first gun you see in "Po-Dunk" is being cleaned by a black man, and a good part of the video dwells on women (in bikinis, no less) blasting away at watermelons. Trash another manufactured dialectical conflict."
"All of this isn't about one Senate seat from Michigan, and what that might mean in terms of political calculations. It's about a movement in society. At bottom, it is guilt that is the fuel that the New Left relies on for its weaponized dialectics. And it is guilt that Kid Rock vehemently rejects, even the guilt of a straight white man."
It's really great to see someone who GETS him and his brilliance. I love him the MOST.
Because I employ that usage myself and I don't want anyone to know that I am, in fact, a hardened Marxist infiltrator who has been worming my way into FR for years. MUHAHAHAHAHA! (Coughcoughcough...sorry...)
So don't blow my cover. ;-)
Yeah, they said that about Donald Trump too. Just a loud-mouth entertainer with a reality show.
He is rock and country.
He has seriously supported Detroit, many terminally ill children, black causes, got an award from the NAACP in 2010 I think. Did a fundraiser for the Detroit Symphony.
He donates a million or more each year to Detroit causes. He is hugely popular there.
Up here in northern Michigan we also adore him. I only rarely encounter someone who is not overly fond of him but even they admit he is one of our own. It has nothing to do with his concerts or what he wears at them.
Sarah Palin likes him. She invited him to the WH with her....I am hoping she can help him with the bad language.
The Hegelian dialectic in another way of thinking is perpetual “conflict resolution”. And, the newest conflict will always be the most important, possibly better stated as the most seductive. Hence, sex equity and race are...let’s say...”maintained” as issues, but take a back seat to gay marriage, which was quickly supplanted now by trans issues.
=> When your goal in conflict resolution...for it’s own sake...you quickly find your arguing about minutia.
That’s how you end up spending the last two years of the Obama administration with a media focused on who goes in what bathroom.
Exactly. And Kid is a lot like Trump in that he doesn't act elite and he genuinely cares about people.
Anyway the Michigan GOP is welcoming him.
What you are describing is a well liked philanthropist.
Nothing wrong with supporting worthy causes.
I don’t get any sense of what his ‘leadership’ would be like.
I only hear about what he doesn’t like.
Heh — probably hard to find decent borscht there in Idaho :)
I will admit to driving around listening to American Badass...
I’m looking forward to the day when we’ll see Kid Rock and Ted Nugent squaring off in Michigan’s Republican primary for US Senate.
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