The prejudiced view
Is least of all, unkind
And least of all, you

Prejudice
I’ve heard prejudice
Insert your kind
Prejudice
I’ve seen prejudice
I never, mind
Prejudiced
I try not to care
Mostly unkind
Mostly unfair... affair

The prejudiced view
Is least of all, unkind
And least of all, you

Prejudice
I’ve heard prejudice
Insert your kind
Prejudice
I’ve seen prejudice
Mostly unkind
Mostly unfair

The prejudiced view... view...
Is least of all, unkind
And least of all, you

The prejudiced view
Is least of all, unkind
And least of all, you

The Prejudiced View

William Burroughs 'Junky':

Junky... Junky... Junky…
A safe comfortable way of life

The lawyers, doctors and businessmen... Junkies
Junkies
A safe comfortable way of life

I formed a romantic attachment for opium
To get away from people
A safe comfortable way of life

Junky

I was afraid to be alone
And afraid of the dark
And afraid to go to sleep because of dreams
Where a supernatural horror seemed always on the point of taking shape

[Supernatural horror]
I was afraid that some day
[Supernatural horror]
the dreams would still be there when I woke up

I recall hearing a maid talk about opium 
And how smoking opium brings sweet dreams
[sweet dreams]
And I said... I will smoke opium when I grow up

Junky
A safe comfortable way of life
Junky.

JUNKY (Part 1)

Until a while ago, 
it was like nobody ever saw me, 
even I didn’t know if I really existed

You just ask the same questions every week, 
“How’s your job? How’s your job? How’s your job? How’s your job? 
Are you having any negative thoughts?” 
All I have are negative thoughts

How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
All I have are negative thoughts

All I have are negative thoughts

All I have…  are negative thoughts

All I have are negative thoughts

Are negative thoughts

Nobody ever saw me… nobody,
even I didn’t know if I really existed

[All I have are negative thoughts]

You just ask the same questions every week, “How’s your job? How’s your job? How’s your job? How’s your job? Are you having any negative thoughts?” 
All I have are negative thoughts

How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
How’s your job? 
All I have are negative thoughts.

All I have are negative thoughts

Negative Thought Vectors

Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot (1994)

“The Voyagers were guaranteed to work only until the Saturn encounter. 
I thought it might be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. 
From Saturn, I knew, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail.

Our planet would be just a point of light to lonely pixel, 
hardly distinguishable from the many other points of light Voyager would see, 
nearby planets, far off suns. 

But precisely because of the obscurity of our world thus revealed 
such a picture might be worth having. 
While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere 
with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, 
the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in 
until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of the whole Earth, 
the one taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts on the last journey of humans to the Moon. 

It seemed to me that another picture of the Earth, 
this one taken from a hundred thousand times farther away 
might help in the continuing process of revealing to ourselves 
our true circumstance and condition. 

It had been well understood by the scientists and philosophers of classical antiquity 
that the Earth was a mere point in a vast encompassing cosmos. 
But no one had ever seen it as such.

Consider again that dot. 
That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. 
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, 
every human being who ever was lived out their lives. 
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, 
thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, 
every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, 
every creator and destroyer of civilization, 
every king and peasant, every young couple in love, 
every mother and father, hopeful child, 
inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, 
every superstar, every supreme leader, 
every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – 

on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors 
so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. 

Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel 
on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, 
how frequent their misunderstandings, 
how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, 
the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe 
are challenged by this point of pale light. 
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. 

In our obscurity, in all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. 
There is nowhere else at least in the near future 
to which our species could migrate. 
Visit, yes. 
Settle, not yet. 
Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. 

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. 

To me it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another 
and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

Pale Blue Dot

John Cage (1991)

"When I hear what we call music
Between time and space
Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and space

When I hear what we call music
Between time and space
Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and space

Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and...
Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and space

And I love sounds... Just as they are

Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and...

Different sounds
Listen to traffic
You'll see it's always different
Between time and...
Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and space

Marcel Duchamp, for instance,
Began thinking of... erm...
Time, time, time... time
Time, time, time... time

Between time and space
Between time and space
Between time and space
Between time and space

Time and Space

There are two things
That er... don't have to mean anything
Time and Space

There are two things
That er... don't have to mean anything
Time and Space

One is music... and the other is laughter
Time and Space

One is music... and the other is laughter
Time and Space

Between time and space
Between time and space

There are two things
That er... don't have to mean anything
One is music... and the other is laughter
Between time and Space
Time and Space Time

And I love sounds... Just as they are
Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and...
Different sounds

Listen to traffic
You'll see it's always different
Time and space
Between time and space
Different sounds
Coming from different places
Between time and space

Marcel Duchamp, for instance,
Began thinking of... erm...
Time, time, time... time
Time, time, time... time."

Time And Space

What is sound?

What is sound?
What is sound?
What is sound?
All around us... small vibrations
What is sound?
All around us... it shakes the ground

What is sound?
The air is shaken too
What is sound?
All around us... small vibrations
What is sound?
All around us... it shakes the ground
What is sound?
All around us... small vibration

The world goes on
All around us... it shakes the ground
What is sound?
The air is shaken too
What is vibration?... vibration
What is sound?... vibration
It shakes the ground
What is vibration?... vibration

The ear is marvellously sensitive to...
Sounds coming from all directions
All around us...
What is vibration?
What is vibration?... vibration
What is sound?... vibration
What is vibration?... vibration

What is sound?
Most animals possess organs especially fitted to detect...
Vibration
What is vibration?... 
What is vibration?... sound
What is vibration?
What is vibration?... sound
What is vibration?
What is sound?

And we live in this world of sound.

What Is Sound

Over 10 million Africans were taken as slaves and forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of thousands were Muslim.

10 Million Sinners

Common Viper (European Venomous Snake): This person does not tour, but does do mathematics.

Common Viper

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