ink drawings from the greater Phroggy-verse. Christus Rex
Gray Lake, Minnesconsin
Joined March 2016
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“Realistic” artwork in comics almost never works. It makes for turgid, uncanny valley reading. It’s hard for me to believe the people who pursue it even like reading comics.
Yes, the average IQ used to be higher on college campuses, but also culturally, kids were trying to larp as respectable, smart young adults . You get the sense that a current year 18 yr old has no idea what that would look like.
Chappelle has always had House Nigger neurosis bc he grew up in a White/Jewish college campus environment. His Father was a professor of “Music and Civil Rights” in this very White society. So like his Dad he received adulation from these people but was also set apart as a designated “black radical”, which he could never really authentically own in the way he believed his dad could. Very schizo place to be.
You’d hope at some point he could acknowledge that his dad’s bit was bullshit & so were the Whites & Jews who purchased him as a token.
University really does incubate, indulge, incentivize the worst instincts and anxieties of adolescents. It’s so obviously great at that that it’s impossible to suggest it’s not what it exists to do.
It will be obvious in retrospect that the post-war College boom was more than anything else a Soviet style culture-management operation, just hidden , diffused into various institutional skinsuits.
Every “adult ADD” guy I’ve known has been someone who believes they Should Be excelling in some way . They see examples of excellence and think that should be me.
It’s kind of sad bc they won’t accept that they just genuinely weren’t so interested in A or B while the other guy was & that’s ok.
An organic, biological marker has never been identified. I think some personalities have a more difficult time ordering their attention, but the issue is that many simply believe they’re not doing that well , some actually lack *real things* to care about, thus lack a hierarchy of concerns.
Every human being on the planet will feel sharper and more organized if they take adderral however, so it becomes this unfalsifiable feedback loop.
Either there is a pre-existing You that has (uses) a brain, or The Brain *Is You*. It sounds pedantic but that question is going to determine how The Science is deployed and read. Science can’t be used to determine which assumption is true.
I think the kind of self-invention that was so essential to modern arts isn’t possible anymore. I think younger ppl cannot understand that Robert Zimmerman does not truly akshully believe he is “Bob Dylan”~ he knows (& knows we know) it’s a kind of true fiction. It’s that middle ground of holding *ideation* just outside yourself . There’s no space for it
I’ve been railing against “Nashville slop” culture and had no idea figures like Thiel have identified it as the hub of a brand of Christianity he approves of. To the extent it’s used as short-hand
Thiel means Nashville as the hub of American Protestantism—home to the Southern Baptist Convention, major Christian publishers, and Bible Belt culture. He called it “arguably the global capital of Protestantism” and “the center of a place with no center,” contrasting its decentralized structure with the hierarchical Catholic Church, which he labeled a “dubious ally” against a potential Antichrist figure (such as a future Democratic president).
In his view, the city’s Protestant networks can serve as a cultural and ideological bulwark in the “battle of ideas,” rather than leaving that role to other places or institutions.
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Reminder, there are prints of my art available. I'll be adding new and refreshing the collection soon. So get the legacy prints while you can. 🤍
Introducing: Hedgefrog Print
Now available at inkblotistan.com
Hedgefrog brings you the combined mythic power of hedgehog and frog. He greets you with ancient gestures of "this is the way" and "yes hello". Be confident in his message, we're all going to make it.
He joins Black Bunny as the first two prints offerings. Take a look. Add to your fine art collection or surprise someone with gift.
The UK is the dominion of the demon of sodomy . Oscar Wild was its high priest & prophet.
