mrintegrity

Not sure I did this right, but want to reply to Julian assessment of Are We Dancer. Context: I am objectivist, age 59, and have been objectivist since I was in my late teens. I was once a crusader and initiator of the original wave of the libertarian movement, including being editor of the nation's first objectivist/anarchocapitalist periodical. Since then I have moved into financial markets and now manage successful hedge fund. As an objectivist I am always tend to look for linkages with rational/emotional value sources - film, books, music. Saw Killers on SNL months ago and was stunned by the precision of their music (my first hook) and then the words began to catch me. Music and lyrics - what a refreshing, stunning change. I then downloaded the video and have since read the words. As a logician and lover of the emotion of the song, I can come away with nothing but an affirmative assessment of this song. As always, a song writer can contain and release emotions and thoughts in a song that result in beauty and logic, but those thoughts did not necessarily come from a writer who was fully integrated when he produced those thoughts and emotions. We as rational recipients of such beauty must be willing and capable of understanding that. I do not know the philosophical or emotional source of this song (the writer) but the coincidence of the lyrics is too solid to dismiss as accident, even if the writer did not fully understand he notions when he was writing them. Too much here suggests objectivist (or proto-objectivist yearnings) to be casually dismissed. I suggest this is a pop song of stellar quality, that any lover of reason and consequent emotion should listen to and listen to - and even download the video version. The tune and beat are emotionally uplifting and certainly the lyrics are STUNNING. Accidents do not happen is my opinion. Thanks Julian for being one of few who discerned this.