Chinese-funded talking head James Lindsay lives in Tennessee with his paramour and her daughter, a young lady described by Lindsay as bisexual, and as his "daughter." He has long been accused of impropriety with this young woman. Lindsay professes to be both a conservative and a public intellectual. Both claims are wholly fictitious, as is his insistence that he has never paid for his stepdaughter's OnlyFans, the existence of which was revealed to the world by the young lady herself, who is now of age. It is not known whether Lindsay first made sexual advances to the girl when she had reached the age of majority, or whether something altogether more dark and more sinister has occurred in that cursed Nashville household. The present volume collects verse and allegation in a new form of political discourse the author refers to as a kind of twenty-first century revenge tragedy. At the time of publication, Clinton voter James Lindsay remained a stubborn thirty pounds overweight.
Milo Yiannopoulos (born on 18 October 1984)is a British journalist, author, entrepreneur, public speaker, and former senior editor for Breitbart News. He wrote previously using the pseudonym Milo Andreas Wagner.
Yiannopoulos founded The Kernel, an online tabloid magazine about technology, which he sold to Daily Dot Media in 2014. He wrote about the Gamergate controversy. As a self-proclaimed "cultural libertarian" and "free speech fundamentalist", he is a vocal critic of fourth-wave feminism, Islam, social justice, political correctness, and other movements and ideologies he deems authoritarian or belonging to the "regressive left". Yiannopoulos considers himself a reporter of and "occasional fellow traveller" with the alt-right movement. He was permanently banned from Twitter in July 2016 for what the company cited as "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others". He resigned from Breitbart after a video of him allegedly defending sexual relationships between boys as young as 13 and gay men in their 20s resurfaced
Normally, I wouldn't read something like this. But, out of a great debt to a friend of the author and the free sample on Twitter... how could I say no? Just pore over the line "Reified by Rohypnol". Who else has obtained such mastery over verse? I'm not even attuned to such things and I'm captivated.
The subject matter is only an added bonus. James is part of the failed effort to co-opt and neutralize the global movement towards nationalism. He provides a behavioral sink for his audience to fritter away their lives via studying Marxist marginalia. Don't lay down any social process. Don't go back to church. Don't pursue normal interests so you can have something to do with somebody else. Just cry about Hegel while posturing over being above "both sides". It's an absolute waste, and a tragedy that anyone of substance is sidelined by it.
This was a disappointment. I'm only giving this 14-page book an extra star because it's a creative style of political attack, otherwise it would have been one star.
Basically, it's a critique of a political charlatan in seven poems. For me, this is a new style of political attack, although I suspect this was a style of political discourse in the distant past. From a legal standpoint, it skates right on the edge of defamation.
But rest assured, the poetry is rather nasty and vile.
Milo is better than this. I don't know what got into him.