About the Young Idea
Well I am back in Edinburgh for the weekend, it is my birthday on Sunday so I am mainly here to pick up pressies, does that make me a bad person or just human?
To all my worries and paranoia’s I think I am adding my ability to write between the lines but inability to read between them. Of course it is probably not just me, it is kind of self indulgent to think so, is that why there is so much loneliness in our society? Is it that we can all send out the signals but no one knows how to read them?
The human world is based on interpretation, the problem is we have very little way of knowing if our interpretation is correct or if there is even such a thing as a correct interpretation, everything is relative anyway isn’t it? Can a wiser person please tell me if Physics and Philosophy mix and match?
Take the lines from the James song Sit Down
If I hadn’t seen such riches
I could live with being poor
I have always used them as a condemnation of the evils of Capitalism,which shows people the wonderful shiny things though mass advertising but also keeps large numbers of people in a position where they can never afford the wonderful shiny things. Before you all spam me for being a commie pinko, all political systems are evil in some way or another mainly because they are ultimately only there for their own continuation and not actually to advance the human race. Okay back to James and Sit Down, of course what I missed in the above interpretation are the lines that proceed those.
It’s hard to carry on
When you feel all alone
Now I’ve swung back down again
It’s worse than it was before
Of course I understood these lines but for some reason I had always interpreted them then interpreted the next two lines separately.
In the end we always spin other people’s words and actions to suit our own needs.
O wad some Power the gift tae gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An foolish notion:
What airs in dress an gait wad lea’e us,
An ev’n devotion!
Kev
