Quote Originally Posted by Vassilis View Post
You shouldn¢t be annoyed so easily. I can suggest a more phlegmatic approach. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. After all we are dealing with human beings and such is society.
Au contraire, mon ami.

I'm not just annoyed, I'm furius at the the show-off twats that listen to their audio equipment instead of listening to the music and lyrics of songs AND they have the nerve to call others, that actually listen to music and are paying attention to the lyrics: naive, ignorant, backward (and other such shity names).

Take for example the record Dark Side of the Moon. Those fuckwhits are stunned by how their great immersive setups recreate, with the highest fidelity, the bass frequencies and the spatial audio effects. That's it, nothing else! Those simpletons are either incapable or totally indifferent to the meaning of the lyrics.

Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, wrote: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

If you think about it, I mean seriously think about it, you wouldn't suggest an approach along the lines of the lyrics you quoted. Those lyrics seem to relate rather closely to Nagel¢s concept of absurdity. Nagel defines our lives to be absurd because there is a distinct discrepancy between our claim to significance and what the universe actually tells us. Or in other terms, we go about our lives thinking they are significant but, because you can zoom out far away in reference to the universe, this means we are but a pointless speck on a small planet who really has no meaning whatsoever.

This idea is present in the lyrics "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" and this relates directly to an absurd life. It hints at the feeling that many people may have, whether conscious about it or not, that we are all just grasping for meaning. We try and find some way to cope with the desperate feeling of meaninglessness by just trying to fool ourselves that we are meaningful or just accepting that we are indeed lacking meaning in the universal scale.

This is too what Camus thought. He thought that either we would commit suicide (either literally or philosophically - i.e. religion) or we would have to accept that the universe is silent and continue to search for a meaning to life. I seems plausible that these fears are what the lyrics to time are playing at. Our fear of death and meaninglessness and that we simply don¢t have enough time to find a way over it: "And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.", "Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time…" and "The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death."

A second paramount point underlying the Dark Side is the concept of "Us and Them" or, more precicely, Us AGAINST Them.

"With (with, with, with), without
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?"

No matter what the stated reasons for war are, whether they be a protection of democracy, a holy crusade, or a pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, in the end all the fighting is really over who gets to have and who doesn¢t. Hence the withs and the without¢s.

So, let's put the above two points together:

"Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend
"

So, why is it impossible for the "most evolved animal" on earth to grasp a couple of such plain and simple realities?