So We Are Pretty Convinced We Don't

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I Think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

American Society Has Gone Completely Into Denial.

There Are Any Number Of Things That Survive Great, And Don't Need Any Kind Of Consciousness, So Why Bother Going Through All The Trouble Of Evolving Monkeys That Don't Run Very Well Or Climb Very Fast Or Have Particularly Sharp Teeth, But Have Big Heads.

Music Goes Way Back Before Language Does. And Music Is Like The Key To A Whole Spiritual Existence Which This Society Doesn't Even Talk About. We Know It's There. The Grateful Dead Plays At Religious Services Essentially. We Play At The Religious Services Of The New Age. Everybody Gets High, And That's What It's All About Really. Getting High Is A Lot More Real Than Listening To A Politician. You Can Think That Getting High Actually Did Happen - That You Danced, And Got Sweaty, And Carried On. It Really Did Happen. I Know When It Happens. I Know It When It Happens Every Time.

If You Think Of Music As A Language, The Space Part Is Where You Throw Out All The Syntax.