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: Althouse

"Anything I go into ? producing, rap, homes, clothing, anything ? once I'm given the right information, I apply my taste. And I have the best taste on the planet."

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"It was something that God put in my heart back in 2015. A few days before the MTV awards it hit me in the shower. When I first thought of it, I just started laughing to myself and all this joy came over my body, through my soul. I felt that energy and spirit. Two days later, I accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Awards. Instead of performing my array of hit songs, I gave just my perspective on awards shows.... It even took heart to say it in that context and people were just like: Oh! Their minds were blown.... I had different friends -- some people in the music industry, some tech elites -- and they took it as a joke.... I'm completely confident that I will figure out how to get America out of debt, that I have the ability, once I see everything. I never make the wrong decision when I'm given all the information. That's my skill set. Anything I go into ? producing, rap, homes, clothing, anything ? once I'm given the right information, I apply my taste. And I have the best taste on the planet. Could you imagine Quincy Jones as a president? Walt Disney? Steve Jobs? For America to be as warming and inviting as Disney World. There used to be this dream. People still have this dream of coming to America.... I know that me as president would be the best thing that would ever happen for America's foreign policy. I've traveled more than any president already, and I bring people together. I put rivals on songs together to create masterpieces.... I'm definitely 100% winning in 2024...."

From "10 Takeaways From Kanye West's Conversation With Joe Rogan" (Billboard). I tweaked a little of that text to make it more accurate. Here's the video clip (justifying my edit to make it "people were just like: Oh! Their minds were blown" instead of the blander "people's minds were blown")

I'm very interested in this concept that it all comes down to taste ? that there are some taste geniuses in the world and you could put them in charge of maybe anything and ? with experts to give them "all the information" ? they can make the right things happen. They can figure it all out in a way that specialists in that field cannot.

What if, choosing a President, we, the humble voters, thought Who has the best taste?! Have you ever, even passingly, looked at the array of candidates, at any point in the process, and considered the question in terms of taste? Not your taste. Not: It's reflective of good taste to vote for Barack Obama. Not: It's in bad taste to vote for Donald Trump (yeesh! I'd look awful voting for Trump). But: I don't have all the information and the information is always changing, so I want the person who ? given all the information ? will make the best choice, and that must be the person with the best taste.

West's idea is something like Trump's. He's taken his initial success and gone on to other fields of enterprise, using his name recognition as a brand, and running on immense confidence in his raw intuition. There's no humility, no fear of failure.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 26, 2020 (boomark / email).