Exactly. No gods. …Time spent with the self is what nurtures genius, the true self. Social media and podcast culture can be a scary machine for neo-conformity. I believe in miracles though. But what he says is very true, no less.
If only he wrote something worth reading. A walking contradiction in his own time. A pulse of dark worse than cancer, for cancer cannot consume itself. Other than that, a brilliant man worth studying. Rot in pieces chuck. I love you more than you did yourself.
@@John-fc4th Let me rephrase it. It sounds like you were disappointed in him? - and that’s what I was responding too. Yet he’s the guy who wasn’t selling pipedreams and politics (the working poet), so I don’t understand why anyone would be upset when he wasn’t about idealism, or, fantasy, or, “unreality” in the first place.
@@SharperPenImageConsulting I am not upset with his remarks on the flaws of society, I have a problem with his lack of answers. It is easy for a broken heart to cry in pain, but to see a gift wasted in a man who hurts others while guised in an artists garb is an affront to those who would better the world.
@@John-fc4th I think Bukowski would say you fell for the bait and switch, and turned on the wrong people yourself. Answers? Who outside of you were you expecting real or honest answers from? Worse, the belief or assumptions that “answers” are any real form of closure, or offer “finality” to life, when in reality, it’s violent endurance and creation and survival day to day, whether people realize that or not. America has a Cinderella existence - but the carriage turned back into a pumpkin. His answer was to be strong, and not buy into an idealistic society of Mickey Mouse hopes and sickness - which means going it alone, and dealing with the madness and pain as it comes. People eat each other alive and feed on one another every day, but hell forbid anyone be flawed? These same “judgments are applied to you,” but weak people are generally resented. The strong man is always a criminal. If not. He’s a drone. “He fits in with the rest.” There’s no having your cake and eat it too, hence the world doesn’t afford everyone to be a criminal, and power dynamics never will. I don’t mean this to be “against you,” I’m not, but I don’t agree with your attitudes and base assumptions. Anyway. Thanks for the chat.
Abolition of ignorance tamps down prideful fear. That poor quality of weakness that suckles on angers tit. When you have chosen stupidity, Anger is the most nourishing substance.
@@Cormac-jd2kx yeah. Most people don’t have the heart or guts to see and appreciate life honestly from the bottom. Their biographies are agreeable lies. They need “culture,” or, micky mouse. Bukowski writes a lot about work, and how horrible Americans are, so I understand why he’s popular among idiots, and hated by intellectuals and writers he will always overshadow (who won’t have the effect, or staying power or relevance of him). He really is a rare stroke of genius (thus so polarizing, hateable, enviable, etc). I think it’s hilarious too. I think he’s ultimately appreciated because he’s sincere and authentic, which is basically antithetical to westerners, media, hyper reality, etc. As a poet, he really does “compete with power” - an idiot culture for children. I find it hilarious that so many educated people don’t like him, and a lot of these are the sort of cattle that liberalism produces - the kind that say they believe in freedom and Justice and bla bla bla
@@SharperPenImageConsulting Im way far from liberalism post modernism etc 90% of what I read - classical literature I gave B a shot and found it so common and boring
@ That makes sense. Who wouldn’t prefer romance and adventure to “the post office” or the waiting line or the squander of endless people and their lives? It’s depressing. This is why McLuhan writes “people live in the old mediums.” (We prefer fiction, to reality - the world is alive, even where beings are “dying”).
@ His poetry is his best. The most beautiful could make one say, “what ugliness and destruction of the 19th and 20th century, let alone the species? The people look like flowers at last!” 😍
He’s nailing it. Insightful.
yes Ibsen 's "Enemy of the People" appropriately enough
Exactly. No gods. …Time spent with the self is what nurtures genius, the true self. Social media and podcast culture can be a scary machine for neo-conformity. I believe in miracles though. But what he says is very true, no less.
the internet destroyed everything he loved.
Great stuff but turn off the background music
Noted. Also, sometimes you have to alter things for "copyright" purposes. Old pirate, I mean, corporate trick ;)
American institution - turning an entire species into cattle.
If only he wrote something worth reading. A walking contradiction in his own time. A pulse of dark worse than cancer, for cancer cannot consume itself. Other than that, a brilliant man worth studying. Rot in pieces chuck. I love you more than you did yourself.
@@John-fc4th You make it sound like he owes you. What’s with that?
@@SharperPenImageConsulting That is an interesting assessment. What lead you to that conclusion?
@@John-fc4th Let me rephrase it. It sounds like you were disappointed in him? - and that’s what I was responding too. Yet he’s the guy who wasn’t selling pipedreams and politics (the working poet), so I don’t understand why anyone would be upset when he wasn’t about idealism, or, fantasy, or, “unreality” in the first place.
@@SharperPenImageConsulting I am not upset with his remarks on the flaws of society, I have a problem with his lack of answers. It is easy for a broken heart to cry in pain, but to see a gift wasted in a man who hurts others while guised in an artists garb is an affront to those who would better the world.
@@John-fc4th I think Bukowski would say you fell for the bait and switch, and turned on the wrong people yourself. Answers? Who outside of you were you expecting real or honest answers from? Worse, the belief or assumptions that “answers” are any real form of closure, or offer “finality” to life, when in reality, it’s violent endurance and creation and survival day to day, whether people realize that or not. America has a Cinderella existence - but the carriage turned back into a pumpkin. His answer was to be strong, and not buy into an idealistic society of Mickey Mouse hopes and sickness - which means going it alone, and dealing with the madness and pain as it comes. People eat each other alive and feed on one another every day, but hell forbid anyone be flawed? These same “judgments are applied to you,” but weak people are generally resented. The strong man is always a criminal. If not. He’s a drone. “He fits in with the rest.” There’s no having your cake and eat it too, hence the world doesn’t afford everyone to be a criminal, and power dynamics never will. I don’t mean this to be “against you,” I’m not, but I don’t agree with your attitudes and base assumptions. Anyway. Thanks for the chat.
No gods.
@@leststoner No gods.
The problem is that....Bukowski wasn't a genius. And he was an awful "poet".
@@mikeyerian2562 put your poem here.
Abolition of ignorance tamps down prideful fear.
That poor quality of weakness that suckles on angers tit.
When you have chosen stupidity,
Anger is the most nourishing substance.
@@SharperPenImageConsulting I've had my poetry published in journals just like Bukowski. I don't need to prove anything. He sucks.
@ sure seems like you needed “to prove” something with your first and last comment here.
@SharperPenImageConsulting I don't need to prove anything. I gave an opinion you disagree with. Oh well, you'll live.
His books are utter rubbish
@@Cormac-jd2kx yeah. Most people don’t have the heart or guts to see and appreciate life honestly from the bottom. Their biographies are agreeable lies. They need “culture,” or, micky mouse. Bukowski writes a lot about work, and how horrible Americans are, so I understand why he’s popular among idiots, and hated by intellectuals and writers he will always overshadow (who won’t have the effect, or staying power or relevance of him). He really is a rare stroke of genius (thus so polarizing, hateable, enviable, etc). I think it’s hilarious too. I think he’s ultimately appreciated because he’s sincere and authentic, which is basically antithetical to westerners, media, hyper reality, etc. As a poet, he really does “compete with power” - an idiot culture for children. I find it hilarious that so many educated people don’t like him, and a lot of these are the sort of cattle that liberalism produces - the kind that say they believe in freedom and Justice and bla bla bla
@@SharperPenImageConsulting
Im way far from liberalism post modernism etc
90% of what I read - classical literature
I gave B a shot and found it so common and boring
@ That makes sense. Who wouldn’t prefer romance and adventure to “the post office” or the waiting line or the squander of endless people and their lives? It’s depressing. This is why McLuhan writes “people live in the old mediums.” (We prefer fiction, to reality - the world is alive, even where beings are “dying”).
@@SharperPenImageConsulting
True. Depressing. Drink prostitutes etc no thanks
I’ve heard his poetry is different …
@ His poetry is his best. The most beautiful could make one say, “what ugliness and destruction of the 19th and 20th century, let alone the species? The people look like flowers at last!” 😍