{"id":6397,"date":"2024-07-16T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:32:13","slug":"watch-the-monkey-get-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2024\/07\/16\/watch-the-monkey-get-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Monkey Get Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard it was you
\nTalkin’ ’bout a world
\nWhere all is free
\nIt just couldn’t be<\/p>\n

And only a fool would say that<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—Walter Becker and Donald Fagen<\/a><\/p>\n

On a rainy Chicago night fortythree years ago …<\/p>\n

No. Scratch it. Turn that heartbeat over again once more–I’ve written and erased the middle of this post at least three times already and now it’s four. <\/p>\n

In the autumn of 1971, John Lennon released “Imagine”, advising us all to imagine no possessions, while sitting on a great big pile of them. That’s an easy thing to do. <\/p>\n

No need for greed or hunger, JL? I wonder what your wife had to say about that, because we all know by now that the game of greed is both imperial and zero-sum–it’s deep in our blood, both yours and mine, like little chunks of microplastic. <\/p>\n

A year later Steely Dan put out a debut record called Can’t Buy A Thrill, which included the song I quoted above. <\/p>\n

It was written as a direct response to Lennon’s imaginary prescription, and even way back then they saw more clearly than that poor fuddled and assassinated martyr ever did. <\/p>\n

And so at last we come back around to the crying of the sky<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I don’t like it but I guess I’m a-learning.<\/p>\n

I saw my baby one morning and she was … <\/p>\n

No. <\/p>\n

You need to learn<\/em> just when to quit, hermano, and <\/p>\n

Solamente un tonto lo mencionara<\/a> …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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