Oct 12 2007

Quote for Discussion: 10.12.2007

Welcome to today’s installment of quotes for discussion!  Without further ado…

Move to the room
Down on the bed
These are the things she said
And make it good
And make me clean
These are the things I need

But I can’t just want
Because it isn’t enough for me

We’ll understand
Talk in your sleep
Tell secrets that we keep
I’m calling you
Out of the crowd
Yeah mommy is so proud

But I can’t just want
Because it isn’t enough for me
And I can’t just want
You know it isn’t enough for me

Want isn’t clean
And want isn’t man enough for me
To make me believe
That want could ever fill my need
To be

And I can’t just want
You know its never enough for me
And I can’t just want
You know it isn’t enough for me

Want isn’t clean oh yeah yeah
Want isn’t man enough for me
To make me believe oh oh yeah
That want could ever fill my need
Want isn’t clean
And want isn’t man enough for me
Just make me believe
Make me believe
Make me believe

~ Giant Drag, High Friends in Places

For more excellence from Giant Drag, I recommend the song which has the perfect intersect of title and music: You Fuck Like My Dad.

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  1. …what do you think about want?  What do you think want tells us about politics?

  2. We want wanting to not be enough.

    We WANT to have something more than our base desires, we WANT to be ….Noble.

    But our multiple wants for things other than Nobility …..make us ignoble.

    Or more accurately….make us FEEL ignoble.

    Humans have grand ideals….which is their blessing.

    But are often far too ‘human’ to live up to them, this is our curse.

    Unless you believe in reincarntion as a grdual move to nobility over numerous lifetimes….or are content with the thought of the evolvement of the entire species to fulfill the eventual goal of human nobility.

    I will go find “you fuck like your dad,” now, lol.

  3. Greed, hatred, delusion

    No need to believe.  Just see for yourself how it operates.  In you.  Out there.  Then do the right thing. 

    No enlightenment, only enlightened action.

  4. nor what it had to offer in terms of desire or want, nor what the relationship between that ‘wanting’ and politics other than the poisonous greediness of it.

    I agree.  Nothing to be overcome. 

    I’m sorry I can’t understand the lyric or its intent.  My failing.

  5. … Philip K. Dick wrote a book entitled Solar Lottery.  The protagonist (if there ever is such a thing in a Philip K. Dick Novel), Ted Bentley, says something I feel speaks to what I want when it comes to politics:

    “I never told anybody what to do in my life.  All I want to do –” Bentley shrugged angrily, unhappily. “I don’t know.  Be another Al Davis, I suppose.  Have my house and a good job.  Mind my own business.”  His voice rose in despair.  “But goddam it, not in this system.  I want to be an Al Davis in some world where I can obey the laws, not break them.  I want to obey the laws!  I want to respect them.  I want to respect the people around me.”

    I think folks want to respect the laws so much that they will deliberately re-invent bad laws in their own minds, color them with distortions until they are beautiful — which is why, I think, we see the flag pins and yellow magnet ribbons on the SUV’s.  I think it is something folks want very badly … so badly they’ll take even a facsimile or parody of this rather than nothing at all.

    • pfiore8 on October 13, 2007 at 03:03
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    because it doesn’t keep us from dying

    it’s all some crazy way of trying to more powerful than that

    all this stuff we do… all the power we try to grab and keep… all the talk and thinking and believing we do is to find an out, and escape clause

    but as he lays there, face sunken in, eyes glazed, skin on bones, we know the truth.

    it is what makes us all equal…

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