feelings are overrated.
people are less important to other people than they imagine.
celebrity is fleeting and of little use except for getting sex and gifts.
thinking is too hard for most people.
older is usually wiser.
no one can live without living in a story.
the influence of parents and the unconscious desire for children -- i.e. reproduction of the self -- motivate most human activity.
friendship and music are still pleasurable mysteries.
it feels better to give than to receive.
listening is usually more rewarding than talking.
Forty years ago, a 'single' was available as a vinyl object, to be played and gradually worn out on a turntable. It cost one dollar. True, you got two tunes, one on each side. But note: today a single, available as a digital file that never wears out and can be played anywhere, forever, also costs one dollar. Almost everything else costs much, much more than it did 40 years ago.
'Here in the Hurricane (Irene Mix)' - one possible mix of this song among an infinite number, some of which will continue to appear - is now up on iTunes. For one dollar. Buy the song and listen to it wherever and whenever you want, with anyone, forever. And be a tiny part of the cosmic exchange that returns to the artist fractions of what it cost to make the song. Money is, of course, not the point.
Click the gray button.
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