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    CASS McCOMBS

    Jul 21, 2022 4 minutes
    By Tom Pinnock

    Heartmind ANTI?

    “Mr Musk was in a bad way/Stewing in his bullion like a phony chef”

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    THE ancient provocateur Diogenes – a kind of Grecian hybrid of Slavoj Žižek and Steve Bray – is one of Cass McCombs’s recent obsessions. Born two and a half millennia ago, Diogenes demonstrated his radical philosophy by living on the streets of Athens, sleeping in a ceramic wine vessel and o€ ending the public with various stunts, all in the service of sticking it to the corrupt ruling class of the time.

    McCombs’ fascination is understandable, for Diogenes could easily have stepped from his catalogue; say, from one of the Californian’s many songs celebrating outsiders, the damaged and addicted, , as he put it on 2013’s “Home On The Range”.

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