[extropy-chat] jagger in the superbowl

[spike]

> --- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Perhaps satisfaction causes aging?
> >
> > {8-]
> 
> According to information contained in this confession
> 
> http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling-stones/117881.html
> 
> the truth is far more sinister. ;) Stuart LaForge

Consider for a moment the pure human brilliance that
went into certain memesets: the poetry of Shakespeare, the
U.S. constitution, Hofstadter's Eternal Golden Braid, 
More's extropian principles, Broderick's The Spike, Maxwell's
equations, general relativity, quantum electrodynamics, string
theory, all the really smart stuff.  The people that know these 
works stand in awe, yet few actually know of them, very 
tragically few.

Compare with the teeming masses gyrating to Can't Get No 
Satisfaction at the superbowl.  Can anyone even imagine song 
lyrics dumber than Can't Get No Satisfaction?  Do suggest.

Who could have predicted that a song with so little actual 
information, sung with such poor voice quality as Mick 
Jagger, without a particularly compelling beat, without 
even an imaginative guitar riff, would allow a rock and 
roll group to sell this silliness for *over forty years* yet 
never get any better than it was the first time they 
inflicted us with it.  The mind boggles.  

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling-stones/117852.html

One often despairs at being human.


spike