Joyas Voladoras

This essay, despite how well written it is, always makes me feel horrible.  It brings back the thought that we all die some day, and makes me feel very pessimistic. I guess my favorite line would be " Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old."  Live life while you can.

My favorite peice of advice from the song "Everyones free (to wear sunscreen)" was "Accept certain inalienable truths; prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders."  I think its a very ironic peice of knowledge, and that remembering that all of this has and will continue to be true throughout history would keep a person from believing that there was some kind of socialcatacalisimic collapse, and thus becoming a complete pessimist as many old people have.

If I had to write a peice of advice for this song , it would probably go along the lines of "You may be lucky in life, but always remember to quit when your ahead."  That applies mostly to gambling, but to pretty much every risk oriented activity.  Even criminal activies.

Quotes

Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. - Edgar Allen Poe

I choose this quote because not only is it true, but it has a really deep meaning, and it really connects to me.

Knowing

Knowledge corrupts humans.  When a baby is born, without any knowledge, its completely innocent.  It has no formal ideas or concepts, or morals.  As it matures it learns about the world, and it slowly begins to corrupt the child’s brain.  Slowly through introducing different concepts it learns about crime, and punishment.  It develops a conscious and a personality through what’s introduced to it.  Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing, it protects us from learning about things outside of us.  How to abuse the rules and bend them to our will, so we can do what we want.  What’s worth knowing? Nothing, nothing is worth knowing at all.

Ps: Here's a better question, whats not worth knowing?