Thread by @jposhaughnessy

"Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight...
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall"
~@pinkfloyd

I've often thought in an earlier era, they would have been poets or in the philosophy department of Oxbridge. This, for example, reminds me of T.S. Eliot:

"Far away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell"

And it's not just Pink Floyd, obviously.

I think you can find brilliant insights in many forms of music today, for example, the song "Patience" by Nas and Damian Marley is bursting with incredible ideas that really fit into an quest for a better understand of the 'truth'

Some examples:
"Can you read thoughts? Can you read palms?
Can you predict the future? Can you see storms coming?
The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of..."

"Who made up words? Who made up numbers?
And what kind of spell is mankind under?" I've found very similar ideas (put much less poetically) in serious books about philosophy, that's why I think you sometimes find the best stuff well outside the "cannon" that you're interested in

If you listen and read and watch broadly, there's no end to great insights.

Here's the full song "Patience"

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