The Legendary Pink Dots – Zero Zero.
We’re all like the people in that song if we’re honest. Human beings have been searching for answers for as long as we’ve been on earth. Sad, but beautiful.
That’s why I love The Legendary Pink Dots’ motto, “Sing While You May.” However ugly life may seem, there’s always something beautiful in it. Usually the part that’s most human.
My wife, finding her joy at the karaoke bar.
I’ve concluded that, conscious or not, existential dread is at the heart of all extremism. In fact, maybe it’s the basis for all human behavior. Adult behavior at any rate.
No one knows what it all means or what comes next, whatever they may tell you. If they seem very certain, they’re probably trying to convince themselves.
Arguments usually amount to, “I am important, you are worthless” and “I know you are, but what am I?”
No one has the answer to “what am I?” We breeze right past it. But it’s always there in the background.
Scrape the paint off a violent extremist and you will find a person who feels worthless to the core.
Someone who can think of no other way to stave off fear of the void than to push that feeling onto others.
What could give you meaning, when the tools you’ve been offered turned out to be worthless or forever out of reach?
What do you have left? You’re alive.
So sing. Whatever that means to you. Sing while you may.
Me, doing Pink Floyd at Karaoke. No idea who the girl was, but she had a lot of fun.
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