Foot on the ground
Sky falling down
Stifle the sound
Volume unbound
Scent of myself
Toll of the bell
It's not a crisis
So much detail
Aha, aha, aha, aha
Turn it around
The seed in the ground
A vowel or a noun
Addicted to sound
Battle of will, it's only a drill
I don't have to save myself
Put the books on the shelve
No matter what you say
No matter what you say
No matter what you say
No matter what you say
With your foot on the ground
I can turn it around
When we go to the sound
And I'm not coming down
(Repeat)
A temper not to tame
Finish left unframed
Wood that's stripped of stain
Leveling the plane
Don't want them to know
Choke on weeds that grow
Catch her in the flow
The sand will stop the flow
No matter what you say
No matter what you say
No matter what you say
No matter what you say
With your foot on the ground
I can turn it around
When we go to the sound
And I'm not coming down
Aha, aha, aha, aha
(Repeat)
Two more examples among myriads of Cultural Degeneration celebrated by sullen, uncouth, asinine youth to the beat beat beat of the latter-day equivlent of jungle drums heralding our decline and fall into a state of neo-primitive savagery.
ReplyDeleteSuch tripe never fails to make one feel angry, enervated and despondent.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American." PT Barnum
ReplyDeleteI thought that was .H.L. Mencken, but it's all right either way.
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By the way if we xamne the abysmal cintents of most comments to the barious blogs, "BLOGGER" has been resembling "BOOGER" more and more each day.
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Mencken's actual words were:
ReplyDelete“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
Over time, this longer quote came to be paraphrased and misquoted, most commonly in the form “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
In the column, Mencken continued his thoughts about the public’s choices in reading matter and politicians by adding:
“The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.”
I suspect that the second clarifying quotes accounts for your comments vis. "Blogger"...
"Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung." -P. T. Barnum
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The Barnum quote was,
ReplyDelete"“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
― P.T. Barnum
Thank you for the clarification and further elaboration.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the great similarity between Barnum and Mencken all boils down to the tendency highly intelligent, accomplished have for dismissing the feelings and concerns of "The Common People" as unworthy of serious consideration.
I USED to feel that way, myself, but I learned with much practical experience in trying to build life for myself that in actual fact there ARE no Common People.
A lack of highbrow tastes, polished social graces, and erudition does NOT mean someone is STUPID or UNWORTHY.
As we've seen MOST f The brightest and Best products of Ivy League Schools today have NO COMMON SENSE, and are in fact highly insular arrogant elitists with a pathetically narrow worldview.
This can't be "sour grapes" on my part, because I have earned three college degrees, and have enjoyed life happily filled with productive creative endeavor of more than one variety.
I suspect that you, like myself, are a bit "Emile-ish/Rousseauian"...
ReplyDeleteThat may be, old friend, but ifs, it must be mere coincidence, because –– unlike you –– I haven't spent much time studying what OTHERS have written about Politics and the Meanng if ife.. Instead, I have, since childhood, made valiant attempts through prayer and meditation to DOPE THINGS OUT for MYSELF.
ReplyDeleteWhat I may have learned from others has come mostly from a avid interest in reading great –– and not-so-great works of FICTION and POETRY, and a serious study of Important MUSIC, and an innate love of the beauty found ib Art, Architecture both Pubic and D0mmest, Gardens Great and Small, Interior Design Antique Furniture and Accouterments, and Natural Wonders.
I don't claim that as a virtue, but for me at least it as prove to be an agreeable modus vivendi.
A favorte motto that came from a greetng card long ago has helped shaped my delightfully checkered career:
"LIFE is a MYSTERY to be LIVED, not a PROBLEM to be SOLVED.".
I have no idea who orignated the sentiment –– some copywriter working for the Hallmark Corporation no doubt ––, but it has stayed wth me for at least sixty-five of my seventy-eight years.
I value it simply because it has withstod the Test of Time.
Never foget I'm incredibly self-centered and a devoted, basically benevolent PRAGMATIST.
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