Kyrie Irving Provides Nothing To Engage With Beyond The Initial Provocation (cs_mcgowan on how it is immensely sad and angering when rich and famous people poison the cultural water supply because they're bored, unwell or they're itching for engagement)
Friedell:"You put it out on your platform."Friedell:"By putting it out there, people are going to say you're promoting [it]."To finish Friedell's thought, because Kyrie wasn't going to let him:You think most basketball reporters want to cover pseudo-intellectual race hate? This is not the beat they signed up for. They engage with ideas like this only because Kyrie is putting them out there. And to be fair to him, that is the full extent of what he's doing.
. He's a total failure, in this respect. While Kyrie's idiocy is being widely discussed on social media and in articles like this one, it's the cheapest interest there is. Somebody bellows a slur in a crowded room, a lot of people are suddenly going to become very interested in them. That counts for nothing.
Kyrie has said that he wants to be understood as an artist, and as little as he ever meaningfully elaborates on that claim, I'm inclined to give it him. He's a beautiful athlete, and no small amount of work has gone into perfecting all those dribble moves and odd-angled shots he uncorks. His play is genuinely mind-expanding, delineating previously unseen possibilities of bodily grace and skill. As a thinker, the work is entirely absent.
So that's, finally, Kyrie. He seems beyond saving. More frustrating, because you would expect him to live in the real world at least a little bit, was Kevin Durant,if Kyrie's lunacy has affected the Nets' squad:"Absolutely not. [It's] only impacted you guys and everybody outside the locker room." As if platforming antisemitic views is the same as a practice scuffle or sideline argument, the kind of thing the press can make too much of.
This isn't helpful exactly, but it's honest: it is immensely sad and angering when rich and famous people poison the cultural water supply because they are bored, or unwell, or the morphine drip of public attention has slowed, and they are itching for engagement. It's doubly so that there is nothing to be done about it. There are no levers we can pull to make them change. So we process and fume and protest, and begin to hate them. Though they do not feel it.
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