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theme song: the sound of silence
2022-May-28, Saturday 04:35 pmToday's theme music is "The Sound of Silence". No lyrics here, just a harp.
And a deer.
Watch, listen.
I pity the people who fail to recognize in ourselves the same thoughts and motivations found in the brains of our 4-legged distant kin. They differ in degree, much more than they differ in kind.
From the original song's lyrics:
It's not stoicism that makes a mind resistant to compassion. I've found that simple ignorance is one cause (more easily cured), and authoritarianism is another. That one is much more resistant to change.
And a deer.
Watch, listen.
I pity the people who fail to recognize in ourselves the same thoughts and motivations found in the brains of our 4-legged distant kin. They differ in degree, much more than they differ in kind.
From the original song's lyrics:
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells
of silence.
It's not stoicism that makes a mind resistant to compassion. I've found that simple ignorance is one cause (more easily cured), and authoritarianism is another. That one is much more resistant to change.