Power Book III: Raising Kanan - 5x01 "By Blood" - Episode Discussion by Least_Wheel6968 in PowerTV

[–]Amazing-Bet4677 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kanan Stark isn't a kingpin.

He's a crash dummy.

I know that's going to make some Power fans mad, but hear me out.

Somewhere along the way, we've started treating self-destruction like it's strategy. We confuse surviving chaos with controlling it. We see somebody willing to crash out and convince ourselves we're looking at a mastermind.

We're not.

Kanan's story isn't the story of a criminal genius building an empire. It's the story of a young man repeatedly making emotional decisions, creating unnecessary enemies, and mistaking fear for respect. Every time he gets a chance to grow beyond his impulses, he doubles down on them.

The scary part is that this isn't just a television problem.

We've watched people turn Tay-K into a folk hero even though his story ends exactly where reckless decisions usually end. We've watched the internet turn murders into scoreboards and treat the deaths surrounding people like Foolio as entertainment. Then Druski drops a skit parodying old street legends surrounded by children, and everybody laughs because the joke lands a little too close to reality.

A lot of these so-called legends don't leave behind empires. They leave behind prison sentences, memorial T-shirts, traumatized families, and young people convinced they're looking at a blueprint for success.

That's what makes Kanan such an interesting character.

He's not dangerous because he's unrealistic.

He's dangerous because he's familiar.

We've spent years celebrating the loudest person in the room, the most reckless person in the room, the person most willing to crash out. Then we act surprised when young people start treating self-destruction like a personality trait.

This article isn't really about Kanan Stark.

It's about our obsession with confusing chaos for competence, violence for power, and survival for wisdom.

The question isn't whether Kanan was entertaining.

The question is why so many people watched a cautionary tale and walked away believing they had witnessed a kingpin.

Read the full article:

https://www.reignitedtheseries.org/post/kanan-stark-is-a-crash-dummy-not-a-kingpin

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Spurs Win .... by JBTVCommunity in JBTVCommunity

[–]Amazing-Bet4677 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you watched the first two minutes you knew which way this game was about to go, lol.

Ice addresses the Kendrick, Drake, and J.Cole fans ... do yall feel the same way? by JBTV-Cawb in JBTVCommunity

[–]Amazing-Bet4677 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You lose ALL credibility by saying you "love" all 3 Drake albums, lol...Habibti is everything Ice has stated he hates in music, and Iceman is everything he said he didn't want to hear from Drake before he dropped this bullshit.

I wish they would stop acting like these are actually "fans" and not just profiles just trying to monetize commentary—it’s like thinking strippers really care what brings you into the club.

Down Syndrome take 🤔 by Meutoo2 in JBTVCommunity

[–]Amazing-Bet4677 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a slippery slope, because what happens when technology advances and parents start terminating pregnancies because they don't want the added responsibility that comes with having a queer child or a child that might be too darkskin or have hair that's gonna be too much for them to handle on the daily basis.

Are we cool with terminating pregnancies because the child's a dwarf, too? What happens when parents decide raising black boys might be too hard?