[extropy-chat] jagger in the superbowl

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/7/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > --- 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.



You mean that such genius is beyond your ability to understand, or (I
assume) emulate.
As John Lennon once scathingly said "... they want to see us walk on water
again because they missed it the first time around or couldn't believe what
they were seeing..."

Dirk
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