The Journey
In music, though, one doesn't make the end of a composition, the point of the composition
If that were so the best conductors would be those who played fastest
And there would be composers who wrote only finales
People would go to concerts to hear one crashing chord
Because that's the end
We've got a system, of schooling that gives a completely different impression
It's all grading
And what we do is we put the child into the corridor of this grade system
And we go "come on kitty kitty kitty"
And now you go to kindergarten, and that a great thing because
When you finish that you get into first grade
And then come on first grade leads to second grade and so on
And then you get out of grade school you go to high school
And it's revving up, the thing is coming
Then you gotta go to college
Then by Joe you get into graduate school
And when you're through with graduate school you get out and join the world
And all the time the thing is coming
Its coming
Its coming
That great thing, the success you're working for
Then when you wake up one day about forty years old you say "My god I've arrived"
"I'm There!"
And you don't feel very different from what you've always felt
And there's a slight letdown because you feel there's a hoax
And there was a hoax, a dreadful hoax
They made you miss everything
Look at the people who live to retire, and put those savings away
And then when they're 65, they don't have any energy left
They're more or less impotent and they go and rot in a senior citizens community
All because we've simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line
We thought of life by analogy with a journey
With a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end
Success or whatever it is or maybe heaven after you're dead
But we missed the point the whole way along
It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or dance while the music was being played
Now it's my contention and my personal opinion
This is my basic metaphysical axiom shall we put it that way
That existence, the physical universe is basically playful
There is no necessity for it whatsoever
It isn't going anywhere
That is to say it doesn't have dome destination, that is ought to arrive at
If that were so the best conductors would be those who played fastest
And there would be composers who wrote only finales
People would go to concerts to hear one crashing chord
Because that's the end
We've got a system, of schooling that gives a completely different impression
It's all grading
And what we do is we put the child into the corridor of this grade system
And we go "come on kitty kitty kitty"
And now you go to kindergarten, and that a great thing because
When you finish that you get into first grade
And then come on first grade leads to second grade and so on
And then you get out of grade school you go to high school
And it's revving up, the thing is coming
Then you gotta go to college
Then by Joe you get into graduate school
And when you're through with graduate school you get out and join the world
And all the time the thing is coming
Its coming
Its coming
That great thing, the success you're working for
Then when you wake up one day about forty years old you say "My god I've arrived"
"I'm There!"
And you don't feel very different from what you've always felt
And there's a slight letdown because you feel there's a hoax
And there was a hoax, a dreadful hoax
They made you miss everything
Look at the people who live to retire, and put those savings away
And then when they're 65, they don't have any energy left
They're more or less impotent and they go and rot in a senior citizens community
All because we've simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line
We thought of life by analogy with a journey
With a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end
Success or whatever it is or maybe heaven after you're dead
But we missed the point the whole way along
It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or dance while the music was being played
Now it's my contention and my personal opinion
This is my basic metaphysical axiom shall we put it that way
That existence, the physical universe is basically playful
There is no necessity for it whatsoever
It isn't going anywhere
That is to say it doesn't have dome destination, that is ought to arrive at
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Writer(s): Ghostylad
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