There Are Millions of Kanyes In America
Your favorite media personality is not being honest with you. They will make a selfish financial decision rather than a truthful biblical one and tell you that you are nothing like Ye. You are. We all are.
Ye, formerly Kanye West, wants to start a porn studio, Yeezy Porn. Most commentators will swipe at the low-hanging fruit of Ye's degeneracy and hypocrisy. They will gripe about how arrogant and crazy he is. They will highlight how Ye released his gospel album Jesus Is King a few years ago and performed Sunday church services around the country. They will point out the trashiness of his sex-kitten wife, Bianca Censori. Your favorite liberal or conservative commentator will not point the finger at themselves or you.
I critique celebrities, influencers, athletes, politicians, and popular culture so heavily because they are a reflection of society and a reflection of us. Set aside the fame and fortune: those of you reading this article are not that different from Kanye. We all struggle with personal demons. I am just as flawed as Kanye. The only way to fix a problem is to admit there is one. The problem is our immoral idolatry of sex and false gods.
As soon as we turn on our TVs and phones, we are inundated with sex. Why? Well, you know the saying...
The porn industry generates over thirteen billion dollars domestically, making it one of the most lucrative and destructive industries in America today. Nearly seventy percent of adults, seventy-five percent of teenagers, and children, some as young as the age of nine, are watching smut. It melts adults' brains and sex drives and distorts young minds in relations with the opposite sex. Now, AI-generated smut is gaining in popularity.
Okay. So you are in the thirty percent of adults that don't intentionally watch porn. Do you watch Hip-Hop videos? A Nicki Minaj, Meg Thee Stallion, Ice Spice, or Lil' Nas X[-Rated] video is a porno with music. Support for commercial Hip-Hop fuels a pornographic cycle. Do you watch TV commercials? Many use sexual imagery and innuendo to sell food, clothing, drugs, alcohol, air fresheners, sports and concert tickets, politics, you name it. Continuing to buy products from these companies emboldens them to churn out more sexually explicit and -implicit ads. Do you have an Instagram account? Social media, especially Instagram, have become hubs for soft-core pornography. I've wasted far too many hours doom-scrolling, looking at attractive women with no discernable talent, prancing around in tight clothing and swimsuits. Does anyone partake in the digital prostitution ring called OnlyFans?
This critique especially applies to the self-described believers in God. Far too many people act like sexual deviants Monday through Saturday. Then Sunday rolls around. They go to church and believe everything is okay. "Hey, I hopped up and down in the name of The Holy Spirit. I can continue living my debaucherous lifestyle." Wash, rinse, repeat. No repentance.
People's entire identities center around sex. Latter-day masculinity, perpetuated by the Andrew Tates of the world, has been dissolved into one bullet point: how many women has a guy slept with. As feminism has convinced women to act more like men, some women brag about how many men they've slept with. And how much money they got for doing so. At the core of the LGBT movement is wanting special recognition and privileges because of who someone chooses to sleep with.
Thinking we can have a proper and morally just society full of sexual megalomaniacs is sheer lunacy. It's the same lunacy people accuse Kanye of having.
Whenever a celebrity, politician, or influencer goes off the deep end, their idolaters jump off the bandwagon and play revisionist history about their idolatry. I saw it with Diddy. I'm seeing it with Kanye. The worship of these false gods emboldened and seduced them into believing they were almighty and that their transgressions would have no consequences. Diddy and Kanye were heralded for decades as symbols of black and American excellence. Their shortcomings and sexual indiscretions were ignored until they couldn't be ignored. Their fans are partly to blame.
Admiration for talent is understandable. Kanye is arguably the best musician to ever live. His 2005 album Late Registration is one of my favorite and, objectively, best Hip-Hop albums ever. But consider this point. The word fan, originating in the sixteenth century, is short for fanatic, which is short for the Latin word fanaticus, meaning "insane person" or a "mad person inspired by a god". It was a term used to demean religious zealots. Sounds like a perfect description of someone who worships Diddy, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Andrew Tate, Taylor Swift, Caitlyn Clark, Democrats, Republicans, or Kanye West.
Is Ye insane? Maybe. Did we make him insane by giving that one man all that power? Possibly. I do know for sure there are millions of other Kanyes that are in denial.
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