Released: October 12, 2018
Featuring: David Foster Wallace
Songwriter: A Narkiewicz & David Foster Wallace
Producer: Akira The Don
(Japanese dialogue from Naruto Shippuden between Naruto & Pain)
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe
The realest, most vivid and important person in existence
We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness
Because it's so socially repulsive
But it’s pretty much the same for all of us
It is our default setting
Hard-wired into our boards at birth
Think about it
There is no experience you have had
That you were not the absolute center of
[Chorus]
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
And so on
Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow
But your own are so immediate
Urgent
Real
Please don't worry that I’m getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues
This is not a matter of virtue
It's a matter of my choosing to do the work
Of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting
Which is to be deeply and literally self-centered
And to see and interpret everything
Through this lens of self
People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being
‘Well-adjusted'
Which I suggest to you is not an accidental term
[Chorus]
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe
The realest, most vivid and important person in existence
We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness
Because it's so socially repulsive
But it’s pretty much the same for all of us
It is our default setting
Hard-wired into our boards at birth
Think about it
There is no experience you have had
That you were not the absolute center of
[Chorus]
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
And so on
Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow
But your own are so immediate
Urgent
Real
Please don't worry that I’m getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues
This is not a matter of virtue
It's a matter of my choosing to do the work
Of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting
Which is to be deeply and literally self-centered
And to see and interpret everything
Through this lens of self
People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being
‘Well-adjusted'
Which I suggest to you is not an accidental term
[Chorus]
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
The world as you experience it
Is there in front of YOU
Or behind YOU
To the left or right of YOU
On YOUR TV or YOUR monitor
more tracks from the album
From the album
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- Lemmings
- Interesting Times
- Living In The Future 2
- Living In The Future
- Living in the Future 2.5
- Oh (What A Glorious Thing)
- Back In The Day
- Thanks For All The Aids!
- Love
- Liverpool
- Clones
- Patrick
- Full Metal Alchemist (i Walter White)
- Too Sweet To Be Sour
- Be a Plumber
- Heaven and Hell Pt. 1
- The Mysterious
- Those Who Have Everything
- Agreeable and Conscientious
- Music is Everything
- What Would You Be, What Would You Do?
- Tarantulas
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- 42 Rules for Life