Kanye West is a Test

The powers that be, and I don’t know who that means anymore, have fully committed to making “Kanye West” the most detestable person in the world. He’s a test of the powers that be, to see how much propaganda and media attention they need to influence people’s beliefs.<br><br>It’s been incredibly obvious for the past few months, people are influencing each other by parroting the same things they are told by mainstream media. I’m just a random guy in my 20s on Chambers, but I’ve noticed the shift in the last few months of people being more willing to ridicule Kanye West almost unconditionally. Every thread is the same: Person posts about Kanye West, and hundreds of people comment saying how awful he is, and how much they never liked him.<br><br>Why are people influenced so heavily by social media and mainstream media narratives and treat almost everything else as a conspiracy theory? If you have a hard time agreeing that Kanye West isn’t who he was 10 years ago, then you’re in the minority. If you think the moon landing was fake, you’re in the minority. The minority is easily ridiculed and belittled by people who are influenced by narratives. If you’re not convinced by what the media is telling you, then you’re a conspiracy theorist and you’re easily belittled and ridiculed.<br><br>Kanye West was never a great guy. He was a very arrogant and self-absorbed celebrity. But something happened in 2018. Anyone who was paying attention could see a change in him, a change for the better, and something that was refreshing. The media didn’t like it, and the propaganda campaigns started to slowly influence people’s opinions of him. They didn’t want Kanye West to be a voice for dissent, they wanted him to be another voice for the status quo. But Kanye started speaking out against the status quo, and the media didn’t like that.<br><br>After that, the propaganda campaigns went into overdrive. Every time Kanye West tweets, there’s another mainstream media article calling him crazy, calling him a racist, an anti-semite, a white supremacist, a bigot, calling him every name in the book. People are influenced and start calling him the same names. People don’t critically think, they don’t question information that is given to them, they don’t question the motives behind the media’s attacks on Kanye West. Instead, they parrot the same things they’re told to and conform with the mainstream opinion.<br><br>Kanye West is a test of the propaganda machine of the powers that be. They get to see how much influence they have over people’s opinions. They get to see how much information they need to give people in order to influence their critical thinking and opinions.<br><br>Kanye West is a test of the powers that be, to see how much propaganda and media attention they need to influence people’s beliefs. They’ve gone all out on him. They don’t want Kanye West or anyone else to be a dissenting voice or an independent thinker. The media is an extension of the powers that be, and they don’t want anyone to be different. That’s what Kanye West has become.<br><br>EDIT: some people are saying this is a low effort post. Okay, fine. It's no less low-effort than any other thread in the comments here. A lot of them are generic modern memes.<br><br>EDIT 2: I'm getting a lot of downvotes from people saying that Kanye West is a billionaire and an asshole and that nobody likes him. This is the point. It's so obvious that Kanye West has gone rogue and the powers that be have tried to demonize him. They've tried to demonize him to the point that millions of people think he's the most awful man on earth. Why is that? No matter what your opinion of Kanye West is, it's obvious that he went rogue, that he was dissident to the system, and the system fought back. I don't give a shit what Kanye West did in the past, it doesn't matter. What he is now is the reason he's being demonized.