Ye Vs. The Volcano
A Christmas Tale about how Sometimes You Just Have to Drive on the Railroad Tracks
I’ve been working on this one for months, but every time I thought I had it ready to go, Ye went and did something even crazier. White Lives Matter, bringing Nick Fuentes and Milo to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago, and then taking them onto TimcastIRL, going Defcon 3 on the Jews, showing up on Alex Jones dressed as a very stylish, motorcycle-racing gimp.
Theory after theory, explanation after explanation… All completely worthless after literally dozens of minutes of thought spent on the matter after brief periods of genuine amusement.
But while getting Christmas dinner prepped at the parentals house, I finally had a chance to finish my thought, so here goes:
Realistic Theory 1 - It’s been a performance art thing about the grace of Christ extending to everyone. Even the lowest of the low, like Hitler, is a child of God who can be redeemed through Christ and there is a spark of divinity within us all, no matter who they are or what they’ve done.
Realistic Theory 2 - A bunch of people, who happen to be ethnically or religiously Jewish, really super-pissed him off and he’s come to genuinely hate the Jewish people as a group. This one is connected to the whole Black Hebrew Israelites theory that Black people are the real Jews, and the relatively fairer-skinned people generally considered to be Jewish by normal people are lizards or aliens or whatever the hell this is all about...thank you Kyrie Irving.
Realistic Theory 3, Which I personally reject - The dude is just nuts and was having an episode. I mean, that could be it, but I’m starting to wonder if this theory is just everyone, Ye and me and you and everyone else, suffering ‘The Superiority Illusion’ where we all think we have it figured it out to the degree that we assume that everyone who disagrees with us must be stupid, evil, or crazy.
That’s entirely possible, BUT
My Actual Theory is that I just think that there’s this mode people get into where they say, “Fuck it, I’m going to go ahead and break every single goddamn rule they have…”
3 movie scenes led me to this conclusion - National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Groundhog’s Day, and Joe Vs. Volcano .
Realistic Theory 1 - It’s a live action performative sermon on how everyone can be redeemed through the power of Christ.
1 Timothy 2:4-6
4 God wants everyone to be saved and to fully understand the truth. 5 There is only one God, and there is only one way that people can reach God. That way is through Christ Jesus, who as a man 6 gave himself to pay for everyone to be free. This is the message that was given to us at just the right time.
Evidence: Ye’s 9th album, Jesus is King.
Personal note - I actually really dig on Closed on Sunday
Realistic Theory 2 - He’s a genuine anti-Semite.
Apparently part of the destruction of his professional life and family happened because of people who happen to be Jewish, including this charming gentleman:
And StopAntisemitism.org named Ye ‘Antisemite of the year,’ so there you go.
A bridge between Realistic Theories 1, 2, and 3, on the Alex Jones show appearance, per the Washington Post.:
During Thursday’s show, Jones told Ye, “You’re not a Nazi” and “You don’t deserve to be called that and demonized.”
“Well,” he replied, “I see good things about Hitler.”
“I like Hitler,” a fully masked Ye told Jones. Minutes later, the rapper said, “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”
Realistic Theory 3 - Here’s an article by Allison Young, an actual MD Psychiatrist, on this possibility. She’s imminently more qualified than myself on the matter and her article is worth checking out.
My Theory - Sometimes people just up and lose it and start breaking the rules because it feels good.
The first taboo he broke was to invert the narrative of Black Lives Matter:
Ye, like Candace Owens, isn’t the only Black person worried about the demonization of Whites. Steve QJ has an excellent (and academic and sane) article here called ‘The Unspoken Evils of Whiteness,’ and his excellent Substack 'The Commentary' is worth checking out.
While I’m on the subject, it’s clear that this constant demonization of Whites in Critical Race Theory has really been doing a number on the mental health of Liberal White Women:
From WLM, Ye decided that the problems facing Whites, as well as the high rates of abortion in the Black community that have persisted since Margaret Sanger developed Planned Parenthood as a eugenics program aimed, at least in part, at limiting the Black population, are probably the result of a vast conspiracy at the hands of The Jews. So he decides to break the taboo about condemning the judgement of Jewish people as a whole, and while he’s at it, goes ahead and praises Hitler and the Nazis.
From there it’s just a matter of breaking every rule and slaughtering every sacred cow society has. Hang out with Milo and Fuentes, surprise Trump with their appearance at Mar a Lago, just go nuts.
Maybe it was/is a sermon, and maybe there’s a plan, and maybe it’s hate, and maybe it’s craziness, and maybe it’s all of them. But what I see is this nihlistic explosion of the human psyche where someone just gets sick of behaving themselves and decides to go on a tear.
Here are the movie scenes that I see playing out in Ye’s behavior, starting with National Lampoons, because it is Christmas time after all.
Christmas Vacation -
Groundhog’s Day -
“It's the same things your whole life. "Clean up your room.", "Stand up straight.", "Pick up your feet.", "Take it like a man.", "Be nice to your sister.", "Don't mix beer and wine, ever.". Oh yeah, "Don't drive on the railroad track.""
And finally, Joe Vs. The Volcano -
And if this was just one dude losing it in full view of the public, then it wouldn’t be worth writing about. But I don’t think it’s just him. I think between Covid-19 and vaccine mandates, and the threat of geothermal nuclear war, and inflation, and hyper- and negative- partisanship, I think we’re all under a lot of pressure these days.
Maybe Ye, being a rich, eccentric artist whose life got his turned upside down, is a wild canary in a coal mine. It’s just a theory of course, and I’ve been wrong before…
But just in case, maybe we should all try to be a little kinder to each other, and ourselves, and bring that societal pressure down a scooch. After all, it’s Christmas, and
As always, Thank You for reading, and I’m always happy to edit and update my work in response to constructive criticism.
-Santa Nate