Post-Empire

Charlie Sheen is a modern day Bukowski. The vulgarity, sincerity and mania with which he can tell anybody to go fuck themselves calls to mind any Bukowski short story in which he describes the miseries of old age and hollywood. Charlie isn’t quite as romantic as ol’ Henry Chinaski though. He’s a real truther. I like that. Charlie turned the media on its head to make a point about the falsity of empire life. Its Bukowski’s dream world.

Cardi B did the same thing. Her swagger helped out a lot though. She’s more popular with young people. But shes not so afraid. She’s not so afraid to tell people she fixed her teeth and bought a nice car with the money she earned from a song telling everyone in her life to fuck off. People need to hear it. The media needed to hear it. Cardi B knows what she’s doing, or maybe she doesn’t but we pretty much know along with her what the deal is gonna be. It’s interesting.

Social media has turned us little people into 2D freaks who think that their likes and dislikes can define and encompass all of our wills and woes, but it has turned celebrities 3D. We really see them now. And there’s barely a pedestal. Everything is a moment and we can look at everyones shame and agree that being a human is shameful in an empire world, but why should it be? We don’t know anything.