I Think Therefore I Rock! Part 2

It might be okay to restict the actions for children but not for adults. Restrcitions on behaviour should be lifted if they cause no one else any harm.  We need space to grow to be ourselves!

Space To Grow (Mills 1806-73)

A depressing Jazzy Blues Rock song about the futility of life and that we are Doomed To Be Free

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." Jean-Paul Sartre believed that human beings live in constant anguish, not solely because life is miserable, but because we are 'condemned to be free'

Doomed To Be Free (Sartre 1905-80)

Faith v Ethics - Abraham's dilemma with  a lots of guitar solos.

A Blues ballad so to speak

Either Or (Kierkegaard 1813 - 55)

Marx attacked the Capitalist Society and proposed a new way "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

Rise Up As One! (Marx 1818-83 #26 of 40)

So What if you say something  that doesn't make a practical difference. If nothing hangs on the answer what is the point in saying it!

So What! (James 1842 - 1910 & Pierce 1839 - 1914)

The Strong should take their rightful place!

Now We Are Beyond (Nietzsche 1844 - 1900)

We all have hidden desires - some are okay, but others....

Hidden Rooms (Freud 1856 - 1939)

Boo, Hiss, Hooray! (Ayers 1910-89)

People's lives are in your hands but someone will die!
Runaway Train Dilemmas

You Will Be Blamed! (Foot 1920-2010 & Thomson b. 1929)

Set theroy and lingustic turn. How can things make sense when they are not true

Paradox (Russell 1873 - 1970)

Bewitched By Words (Wittgenstein 1859 - 1951)

Just obeying orders is no defense. The banality of Evil needs to be recognized

Ordinary Guy - with blood on his hands (Arendt 1906-75)

We would be fools not to learn from our mistakes

Lyrics: Learn from our Mistakes (Popper 1902-94)
 
Baby I can see clearly now
I must have got it wrong somehow
I realise I wasn’t thinking straight
And my theory doesn't hold any weight. 
I thought I was right 
but something came to light
 that proves my idea wasn’t water-tight.
and I know my reality must move along
 but I must soon be that headstrong

 we must learn from our mistakes 
and see that we've learnt something new
 everything that is being disproved 
adds to the knowledge that we accrue 

come on now you must realise 
we just can’t guess that would be unwise 
theories have got to be tested 
and  we can let our ideas go unmolested
 if you have an idea that can’t be disproved
 if it can’t then I be frankly unmoved
You just can't go call anything a science
 if you do will call you out in defiance


we must learn from our mistakes
 and see that we've learned something new 
everything that has been disproved 
adds to the knowledge that we accrue 

sometimes somethings appear that changed the way we think
 when these occur, we mustn't step away from the brink If you find something doesn't fit 
it doesn't mean that you go ahead and quit
 just means a knowledge doesn't knit 
and we're entering a paradigm shift 
we've got to rethink everything we know
 abandon old knowledge away must go 
design a new framework 
clear away the Murk 
start over again 
old knowledge is now arcane 



we must learn from our mistakes
and see we've learnt something new 
everything that has been disproved 
adds to the knowledge that we accrue
we must learn from our mistakes 
and see we've learnt something new 
everything that has been disproved 
just adds to the knowledge that we accrue.







If you find something doesn't fit 
it doesn't mean that you go ahead and quit
 just means a knowledge doesn't knit 
and we're entering a paradigm shift 
we've got to rethink everything we know
 abandon old knowledge away must go 
design a new framework 
clear away the Murk 
start over again 
old knowledge is now arcane 



we must learn from our mistakes
and see we've learnt something new 
everything that has been disproved 
adds to the knowledge that we accrue
we must learn from our mistakes 
and see we've learnt something new 
everything that has been disproved 
just adds to the knowledge that we accrue.

Learn From Our Mistakes (Popper 1902-94)

If we designed our world not knowing who we would be - would it be a fairer place.

"Who would clean the swimming pool, Who would get a yacht?"

The Veil Of Ignorance (Rawls 1921 - 2002)

How can we tell if machines really think and understand and if they do what does that mean?

The Handshake of Man and Machine (Turing 1912-54 & Searle b. 1932)

Consistency and Consequences (Singer B. 1946)

The Moaning Of Lif

A non-singer songwriter! Writing a series of songs (Double Album) about western philosophy and philosophers while trying to keep them rockin'. These song explore western philosophy inspire by Nigel Warburton's Book "A Little History of Philosophy" and I started writing them to aid my poor muddle memory.

Picked up the Electric Guitar during lockdown after 20 years and haven't looked back - why did I put it away!

Looking at recruiting a proper singer and other band members to make live music once again.

Writing music and playing guitars (inc bass) keeping me sane in a mad world!

Main influence is 70s Rock, but into blues, soul, funk and jazz. I also play the spanish guitar classical guitar and dabble with the ukelele!

Drums provided by Roland "The Boss"

All songs recorded mainly in my kitchen on a Boss BR 80 and refined/remixed (badly) on Audacity!

I Think Therefore I Rock! Part 2

Little Furry Despot and the Pumpkins of Doom