radical druid Posts

It doesn’t matter what you know. Ideas tend to come and go like water, winding to and fro until it’s got no place left to go. Everything dries up and fertilizes something. Or it doesn’t matter much, does it?

And thinking isn’t for the sort who think of it as some great sport where someone’s always coming first or get traded. Yeah, that hurts. It sounds a lot like some old song, but I’ve got my cross-reference wrong. Besides if all we do is feel, that’s going to make it so much more real, isn’t it?

I’m not so sure. There’s so much prohibition tied up with freedom of speech and inhibition in general is sometime left to the less poetic. All I know for sure is the timing may not really matter, but sometimes it’s hard to tell the excrement from the air conditioner. Like the subtle difference between root beer and sarsaparilla. In life so much depends on your palate. If you’re lucky to live that long, your taste buds renew themselves about every ten years. Sounds like that ought to a sentence (or maybe term) limitation. Nobody wants to split hairs, but we’ll split an atom.

So it doesn’t matter what you know. Because that’s less than what you think you know. Which is of course less than what you say you know. Which if you’re prudent enough, is less than what people think they know about you. A drop in the bucket, and the bucket’s got a hole in it, it won’t hold no beer. Some country music used to reference real world economic and logistical concerns.

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It’s a pyramid all right. The 1% at the top over the other 99. Might say they’re supporting the peak. Reality is the pyramid is upside down & underground. Most important & most plentiful, the bottom, supported by ever smaller layers of better-offs, til the one top. In death, they honor the mirror top: offering useless one at the top to keep the gods company.

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After another careful yet throughly enjoyable listen last night, I must again rank the #WhiteAlbum as the #Beatles crowning glory. Unlike their previous album, the costumes were off. Yes, you can hear the band disintegrating, yet they were never off target. The styles they explored and the way the sound filled the special spectrum with every instrument and sound specifically put where you hear it, the way each of the members created, reinvented, and predicted most of their own, and everybody else’s musical direction for the next 20 years, is mind-boggling. There is not a revelation-free moment. This is the Beatles naked. Exposed. Not a product or gimmick or novel social experiment. A real band. That could groove its ass off and then break your heart, only to then blow your mind. They put the polish back on, later, but this is where you saw them backstage. If you haven’t heard this on headphones or studio monitors, try it again.

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More out of left field crazy country lyrics: “It never made a profit so I give it out for free. It doesn’t matter either way that’s how it’s gonna be. In any case the fixing it is not all up to me & I ain’t much use to bring along, but what will be will be. The answer’s never where you’re looking, stop looking @ me. I’ll have 2 charge admission & u can’t afford my fee.” I’ll be here all night. I ain’t wearing the hat because you’re supposed to be throwing money in it, right? Living the dream, right? Well, it’s somebody’s dream. I never wanted a guitar-shaped swimming pool or nothing, but maybe a bit of a concrete pond in the back yard and a fence to keep it private would do. Of course, there’s the money to think about. Gives you pause, don’t it? That’s what the hat’s for, remember? It ain’t a tip. It’s for services rendered. As if that was enough to hold up the rest of your life you carved away just learning how to play that last fifteen or so minutes. Yeah, thats the Art of the Midwest as I learned it. Oh, but that’s so Appalachian, ain’t it? JD Vance might think I made it up. LOL.

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If you make sufficient contribution, you can choose your brand of execution. In the long run, it’s not a solution, but right here and now it’s not so bad.

If you choose the preferred plan of action, letting those who wish it, satisfaction, you may be more driven to distraction by what you might get than what you have.

If you spin your wheels in such delusion, that may be your whole life’s contribution. Not that there need be any confusion: it’s your recipe, no substitutions. That’s a handicap sometimes. Too bad.

13 DEC 2026

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