ACID RANT

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ACID RANT is a Toronto based cultural movement focused on fostering a community of critical-thinking, creative youth that want to disrupt the system and unlock humanity's full potential. We do that through creating and curating counter-culture.

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Chris Rock, Jay Z, Baudrillard & Dostoevsky: Crime & Punishment In Simulacra & Simulation

Acid Rant

Dec 12, 2020
14 min

Chris Rock, Jay Z, Baudrillard & Dostoevsky: Crime & Punishment In Simulacra & Simulation

I was watching Chris Rocks: Bring The Pain special for the thousandth time in my life. As I get older, days away from my 22nd birthday, I...

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Albert Camus, Creativity, Dreams and Synchronicity: Why Create Through The Absurd?

Acid Rant

Dec 2, 2020
11 min

Albert Camus, Creativity, Dreams and Synchronicity: Why Create Through The Absurd?

It's December and we’re 9 months into a global pandemic. It's a rainy Tuesday and my bedroom window is stained with condensation and wate...

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Dave Chappelle's Intimate Trilogy: Transcendent Art

Acid Rant

Nov 25, 2020
7 min

Dave Chappelle's Intimate Trilogy: Transcendent Art

I love things that evoke true and pure human emotion in me. Things made by people different from me but contain an accurate example about...

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Catcher In The Rye: Authenticity, Urbanization and Meaningful Living

Acid Rant

Nov 20, 2020
13 min

Catcher In The Rye: Authenticity, Urbanization and Meaningful Living

Another day of lockdown, another day of my old-man free trial. I’ve been doing a bunch of old man things like bird watching, taking walks...

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The Renaissance, The Hippies and The 2020's: A Crisis Of Meaning

Acid Rant

Oct 31, 2020
7 min

The Renaissance, The Hippies and The 2020's: A Crisis Of Meaning

The world has recently felt like it's in a constant flux of turmoil. Our information intake is flooded by images of destruction, decay an...

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Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K. & Basquiat: The Medium is The Message

Acid Rant

Oct 21, 2020
15 min

Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K. & Basquiat: The Medium is The Message

Both Chappelle and Basquiat consider themselves Griots, which is a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who mai

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'American Beauty' W.A.P, 'Cuties' and the KKK: History, Time & Political Correctness vs Art

Acid Rant

Oct 19, 2020
17 min

'American Beauty' W.A.P, 'Cuties' and the KKK: History, Time & Political Correctness vs Art

What exactly is the purpose of film? Is film just something you watch because you enjoy it? Film creates the need to reflect the time itself

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Dave Chappelle, Jay Z and Nipsey Hussle: The Cost of Creativity in Capitalism

Acid Rant

Oct 15, 2020
13 min

Dave Chappelle, Jay Z and Nipsey Hussle: The Cost of Creativity in Capitalism

Once every blue moon there are creative businessmen who are able to wear both hats, people like Jay Z, Nipsey Hussle and Steve Jobs that are

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Kanye, Trump, NPCs and The Simulated Age of Self Aware Memes

Acid Rant

Oct 8, 2020
9 min

Kanye, Trump, NPCs and The Simulated Age of Self Aware Memes

What is real and what is fiction seamlessly blend together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins

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Kendrick Lamars Ab-Soul Outro, Sartre, and Jean Baudrillards Simulacra and Simulations

Acid Rant

Sep 17, 2020
10 min

Kendrick Lamars Ab-Soul Outro, Sartre, and Jean Baudrillards Simulacra and Simulations

Aside from capitalistic pursuits, survival and doing things to please others, what's the reason a lot of us do anything?

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