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today in: having undergrad classmates
to the 18yos of the world. This is not about you personally.
But today my classmates decided that Socrates was an idiot for letting himself be killed, and the social contract he explicitly outlined is dumb, and he was probably lying, while Thoreau was a genius for not paying the poll tax. Who gets to have principles? who's allowed to be honorable?? what on earth is your heuristic, kids???
So today's music is, now that I remember, where my blog title is from -
Simon Gilbert dubbing in for the movie: it's an inch uptempo, and feels almost raw or desperate to me - he knows what he needs to do, but he also needs to be understood, to be believed. How he spits that the world will be better, damn it all, it really is all real and all worth it. He knows the costs, and nothing can outweigh the effort.
But today my classmates decided that Socrates was an idiot for letting himself be killed, and the social contract he explicitly outlined is dumb, and he was probably lying, while Thoreau was a genius for not paying the poll tax. Who gets to have principles? who's allowed to be honorable?? what on earth is your heuristic, kids???
So today's music is, now that I remember, where my blog title is from -
Simon Gilbert dubbing in for the movie: it's an inch uptempo, and feels almost raw or desperate to me - he knows what he needs to do, but he also needs to be understood, to be believed. How he spits that the world will be better, damn it all, it really is all real and all worth it. He knows the costs, and nothing can outweigh the effort.
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march
Into Hell for a heavenly cause!
...
Without question or pause
To be willing to march
Into Hell for a heavenly cause!
...
And the world will be better, for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star!