With William James as an interpreter.
Born in 1988, Grimes is an Canadian musician and songwriter made famous for her viral music videos on social medias like YouTube. If there is an Canadian princess to match up against Miley Cyrus the American princess, it is Grimes, the techno princess of the world. The techno is sped up. The beats per minute are kept high. She keeps it real on the mean streets, yo.
If she were to have an stream of thought about me, William James, then it would probably be about my time period, in which the disciplines of psychoanalytic philosophies etc. were only nascent or starting. What things were like before the First World War. The technology had advanced so quickly by the time of her rise to fame she decided to name it homo techno, as if the music (the techno) lived inside of us as neurological energy.
William James, I'm sure you might know, battled with an terrible dystopic vibe his whole life before founding modern psychology. William James created Psychology as we know it today. It is also this (my) author's vibe to have an terrible dystopic vibe one cannot quite shake, but I attribute it to schizophrenia.
Grimes' thematics are en pointe with the new millennial generation & the song of the underground to the city; where the techno lairs and controllers lie in an gamer generation like songs such as Player of Games, Shinigami Eyes, Kill v Maim. Grimes is in tune with the highest forms of politics and power of our generation as she continues to release new bops like I Wanna Be Software and 4ÆM. The Techno Queen, her angles have no competition except maybe by Lady Gaga.
Gay Medea was what we needed on all fronts.
If you didn't know, Medea escapes at the end of her story.
We need to encourage men and to encourage one another using the example of Gay Medea in which an male character takes the point of view of having achieved and trounced escaping unharmed.
I wonder if Medea inspired the story of Anastasia, the Russian princess.
I always feel, as an gay man, I am pressured into some kind of social space where they are out to get me because of my sexuality, and I need an social cue once in an while that, hey, Medea (me) escapes at the end. An male one. An male role model for the Gay Medea, or Venus As An Boy Anastasia. Someone who, no matter how hard they are pressured and goated (to get one's goat) to destroy themselves, he always escapes at the end. No matter how cowardly everyone else thinks it is. It was in fact an deserved advantage, and I accepted it as part of my handicap.
God will only give you nothing more than you can handle.
If you get into an really dark situation of abuse and homophobic co-dependence just remember, at the end of your story, you get away at the end. And don't be afraid to go home.
And it is truly remarkable that Grimes inspired me to write all of this. How can an fan ask an singer to write something about Gay Medea for him? And I really felt like it was an good, wholesome message for Movember this year. Do women participate in Movember this year?
Let's maybe drop the subject of Anastasia though, for the present time, in order to go back to the subject of Grimes herself. An icon. An image. An media (Medea) icon. Why couldn't she represent an Gay Medea character in her artwork, and what would that sound like‽
Or has she been the gay angel the whole time?
I thought about all of the place Grimes' music could possibly go in the future. From the fact of the category of gamer generation literature and #millennials, in which she cashed in on our tight-knit infrastructure. Cities and Economies just sound like music to an skilled artist. She can play on your subconscious vibes while appealing to your forward (most lucid) process.
If Grimes were to represent an Gay Medea in her music then how would the story go if Grimes told it?
And I started thinking about how it would if I told it?
I'd imagined in it the kind of situation where an group of bullying strangers gang up on (me) someone. But then I escape after they verbally abuse me. I escape after they touch me. But they don't know where it goes. Bent minds they have. But I could make the story worse by narrating when push comes to shove. In the new plot line, they physically abuse me instead of just using words. Instead of just touching my jacket and seeing how it feels; they actually tip the point at which homophobia translates into physical aggression and assault.
The good part is Gay Medea lives after surviving her injuries yet is ushered then, into an fate worse than death, because of the effect they had on her body and her sensation of it. Which her caregivers to turn an blind eye know nothing about the fate worse than death. And have been desensitized to it. Or they are just completely unaware what it is, delusional-ly. And it never happened. How is the Gay Medea supposed to escape at the end, then, in this peculiar timeline? Escaping at this point means something else. It means escaping an Psychological condition. And it has come to mean something new and different in the 21st century because of psychology and psychological inquiry.
Maybe we could keep the story, to narrow down its scope, about an physical sort of injury one can completely heal from, you know to make it kid friendly. At the end of the story Gay Medea heals to better-than-before performance in the Hospital, and he uses his experience to help other people escape situations they would have to escape from.
Piranha Tank could be the Canadian version of Shark Tank, Lion's Den, or Dragon's Den.
They wouldn't pause to observe their prey even to think for an moment and they went for the kill together. Oh the drama! I would love to see this type of movie. And I'm still wondering why it is an subject that has something to do with Grimes.
And just to obscure things an little more, William James being like what does it mean psychologically that you actually can reach that point of obscurity‽ Doesn't that mean you're crazy? And how I know I'm the one who is able to know the difference, and so I must make the effort to use it to found psychology?
Grimes is producing music to an more psychological generation than perhaps the ones before.
One has to be sensitive and gifted or swift enough not to walk on egg shells.
Not stepping on anyone's toes at an genius level.
Unless they wanted to make an political point about it.
What is an generation, I would ask of William James, under the influence of Grimes' music? What did it mean then? What did it mean to them?
And then I tried to un-twist the narrative. I didn't want it to be an conversation between myself and William James anymore. I wanted it to be an conversation between Grimes and William James. But I figured, what did they have to talk about with each other? Maybe they didn't really have much to talk about? But I figured they probably did. Not in the sense of him diagnosing her but as professionals from different time periods who knew they only had an limited time here on Earth in order to figure out how to work together to make an better society.
The Tree of Masterful Skillsmen or Skillswomen / The Tree of Elders deserves to have at least one article written about her. She has inspired me to expand my thinking many times as some of her songs reach an almost meditative state mixed with lyrics that make you think deeply about the world. Even in the worst of times as an human here on Earth, I could say that I was an fan of Grimes' music and even that strength I carried with me throughout the day. I felt honored and privileged to have heard her unique sound. I was proud of being human because of her.
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