The Genetic Scientist Yacub Cloned Tyrone
Why Capitalism is ready to cash in on the cultural real estate of Black Counter Culture
There are so many Non Playable Characters (NPCs) in these streets today. That’s why The Machine made a “controversial” film about Black conspiracy theories that address white supremacist domestic policy. Such a film would seem to be counterintuitive if you don’t understand how capitalism works.
Capitalist institutions will market and promote seemingly “controversial” views that challenge it so long as those institutions are able to co-opt, control, and distribute the intellectual property that advances the anti-capitalist narrative. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that a classic Public Enemy song will be used in the future to sell soda with high-fructose corn syrup. It Takes A Nation of Millions to advertise demise.
Thanks to social media data harvesting for intelligence gathering purposes, film executives and screenwriters are now aware of the biggest conspiracy theories within the Black community. Most have some logical basis in truth even when they’re outlandish and based on some misinformation.
What was once reserved for barbershop talk, or passionate builds in the cipher, are now available to curious voyeurs who want to know what Black folks are talm’bout.
What They Cloned Tyrone blatantly reveals, before cleverly covering up, is the fact that capitalist institutions are no longer afraid of Black conspiracy theories in 2023 because they don’t believe that the masses of Black people are going to do anything that conflicts with capitalist values and interests.
A conspiracy theory can potentially galvanize individuals, families, and communities towards pursuing meaningful ways of life. Unfortunately these theories have been reduced to intellectual entertainment that people nibble on like the movie’s fried chicken for a dopamine hit. Black Counter Culture isn’t a threat if it doesn’t counter anything
You know that you’re surrounded by NPCs when basic information that has been contemplated by responsible adults is reclassified as “DEEP KNOWLEDGE.” Ain’t shit deep most of the time. Folks are around too many idiots so their expectations are low. A lot of the things that we call deep should be seen as nothing more than the age-appropriate conversation of experienced adults.
The “cloned” people in the film are really satirical references to individuals conditioned to become national security assets over time.
The comatose culture of mediocrity you saw in the film is being incentivized in the real world where TikTok personalities are making money pretending to be NPCs. Who’s paying them? Reports suggest that there is a class of young people who experience so much anxiety around day-to-day life that they are energized and enthused by people who display extreme sub-human mediocrity.
You get more encouragement and engagement on social media if you display psychopathic tendencies than you would if you promote excellence and integirity. Many people will quietly take it as an indictment of their own choice to be a NPC in their own lives.
The NPC culture is needed to keep the peace in the Good ol’ US of A, but like the great Peter Tosh said during the 1978 One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica. “Peace is the diploma you get in the cemetary.”
All of these celebrities who push stupidity as something to aspire to because “it’s such a vibe” are slave catchers working on behalf of your enslavement. These scopolamine parties where they where all white are their infernal rites of passage into servitude of The Machine.
Remember in They Cloned Tyrone the lab coordinater turns to Yo-yo and tells her “Fontaine and Chester are expensive, but hoes like you are a dime a dozen.” That was a bar, because a lot of Black male celebrities have prostituted their minds to their masters as high-priced prostitutes. They’ve outlived their usefullness and their female couterparts are willing to do more damage for less pay you’ve seen a corporate sponsored cooptation of Black Girl Magic, which is being perverted into something else.
In the music industry you now have a whole swarm of young female influencers pretending to be recording artists encouraging youth to be subhuman sex maniacs who do strange things for expensive bags and luxury vehicles. They’re also advocating for young Black men to become BDSM submissives who get off on stilletto heels being dug deep into their backs.
While folks are debating over whether or not Jamie Foxx is a clone, they are being conditioned to become passionate spectators of other people’s lives when they aren’t even present in their own.
Great read. Ready Player 1 came to mind as reading it. It’s amazing how many once clear and obvious truths are oscillating between profound thought and ____ - phobic
"capitalist institutions are no longer afraid of Black conspiracy theories in 2023 because they don’t believe that the masses of Black people are going to do anything that conflicts with capitalist values and interests."
Man, you really roll some grenades into the room with this one. (That is a compliment coming from me, lest it seem ambiguous.) Also: "Reports suggest that there is a class of young people who experience so much anxiety around day-to-day life that they are energized and enthused by people who display extreme sub-human mediocrity." YES
That said, I enjoyed THEY CLONED TYRONE on its own merits and thought it was very funny. But I think that your overall judgment is acute; it serves up a dish of actual learned helplessness along with its satirical assessment of learned helplessness. "Whatcha gonna do? Nothin'" seems to be the moral.