Every day there are idiots in the news. Seldom however does one of these idiots manage to do something that hits one of my few buttons so hard that I feel the need to spew in public.
Congratulations Mr. West.
Kanye West via last.fm
But now he's gone and pissed all over one of my great loves, and proven himself a hypocrite at the same time.
Rapper Kanye West does not read books or respect them but nevertheless he has written one that he would like you to buy and read.A "Proud Non-Reader"? What a load of crap.
His book is 52 pages — some blank, others with just a few words — and offers his optimistic philosophy on life. One two-page section reads, “Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!” Another page reads “I hate the word hate!”
West’s derision of books comes despite the fact that his late mother, Donda West, was a university English professor before she retired to manage his music career. She died in 2007 of complications following cosmetic surgery.
“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed,” West said. “I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph.
“I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,” he said.
West, a college dropout, said being a non-reader was helpful when he wrote his book because it gave him “a childlike purity.”
How about continuing the trend and being a proud non writer too since you clearly have so little respect for the printed word.
Image via Wikipedia
Mr. West is a great reminder of the depths that our culture can sink to, when something like literacy is considered not "Living real life". Frankly I'm surprised he didn't trot out that most venerable of shop worn hip hop cliches and claim that he be "Keepin' it real."
Meanwhile I am still fighting to be keepin' my dinner down.
Keep The Faith My Brothers And Sisters!
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