I completely agree with you and it's fantastic that those people are doing such amazing things. What I'm saying is that the majority of our population do not care for any of that, which is saddening. Again, I agree with you that these beautiful things exist. The song you posted is very nice, wonderful lyrics. But the thing is it's such a small percentage of music that is beautiful.
But come to think of it, isn't the reason we can appreciate it so much because of the filth that surrounds it. I suppose terrible music is a necessary evil. I struggle with myself so often, haha. Me too! I often take the Megabus to and from Chicago and Kansas City and I make an effort to have a conversation with those around me and I that's where I've had some of my best discussions. Very nice meeting you too. I've noticed you've been here a while, so it's nice to have one so famous as you take time for someone as new as myself.
Happy dreaming to you as well! In response to your video:
1) I've come to really enjoy Alan Watts thanks to Hubski. He's so frank about how everything we worry about is so pointless, I love it.
2) Such an incredible concept, the nothingness we live in. Thanks for sharing that.
The majority of people didn't care about people like the Wright brothers trying to fly. Apathy is not new to humanity at all. You need to realise that people haven't stopped dreaming, it's that we're dreaming about things that are even more difficult to do. Going to the moon is hard, going to Mars makes it look like a picnic, you have SO many other variables to take into account that it's mind boggling. To me it feels like the simpler, yet still difficult things have been done, the more complex, in-depth ideas are going to take a little more time to work on.
Out of curiosity, how long long were we interested (in the sense of having NASA focus on it) in going to the moon before we actually made it up there? So you're saying we've just set our goals so high, a lot of us are just losing patience with how long it's been since we've seen progress?
The only reason America went to the moon was because we sent Sputnik into space and the Americans got scared (I'm Ukrainian so I'm kind of from the other side of the coin here). We didn't do much else so when they realized that they stopped giving a damn. It's pathetic, really. America just wanted to win.
There wasn't any serious interest in the moon before Sputnik? Yeah...America isn't really all it's cracked up to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc Here, watch this.
I've seen this before actually. I just wasn't sure if it was solely Sputnik or not.
The Megabus! Nice. I used to love to travel across the country by train. I would bring on a big bottle of whiskey with me and a deck of cards. All you need to make friends on a train are two things and I just mentioned them both.
It's getting late, so I saved that thread in order to read it tomorrow. Hahahaha that's awesome. Well, I turn 21 on Friday. After that I'll keep those two things on my person at all times.
2 things: 1. No need to read the post, it's just a list of essential train tips
2. Happy Birthday pal!
1. Well it might come in handy if by some miracle the Amtrak is cheaper than the Megabus. 2. Thanks!