Two ways of enforcing barbarism: 1. describe it as something positive and meaningful; 2. describe it as it is, but as something that could not be otherwise. Lil B’s music is not an attempt to describe conditions as they are as positive but rather an attempt to speak the positive. But it can seem ludicrous: or at least, like it must be someone else’s inside joke. And that is precisely the most telling thing of all. Lil B makes us aware of the fact that the expression of positivity is only, at present, possible as irony. In that sense real ethical life always must be ‘passed over in silence’, we are unable to speak it as we live currently. Lil B makes us aware of this truth. The world of late capitalism is so false that only a clown can live ethically, or a holy fool.