psyche

Here’s my guess for the importance of chords in a key, in descending order:

I, V, IV, vi, iii, ii, VII (this is in the key of I major with i meaning I minor)

Little fills like ii V7 I or IVm V IVm I seem to be falling out of favour. There seem to be two types of songs: I IV V vi songs and “minor key” songs which are all like vi III ii (or II) and then V IV I. Lots of songs masquerade as minor key songs while actually being mainly iv IV V. Meh.

Of course, everyone who attempts to write music seriously figures this out pretty quickly and some choose to capitalise on how weird it seems to people who don’t think about it (1,2) while others just keep quiet and write hits and everyone wonders “Wow, so catchy. But how?”… lulz.

Pax

Should people have some kind of responsibility to contribute proportionally to their ability?* Is there some significance behind the discrepancy in the definitions of genius?

Look at the difference between, say, Richard Feynman and George Dantzig. Dantzig didn’t seem to be a prodigy and, although he won prizes, has never really been acclaimed as a genius. However, as a grad student he found high-profile unsolved statistics questions merely “a little harder than usual”. Should people who work hard and, as a result of this, achieve fantastic things be respected more than those who do it with little effort? Should they be respected in a different way?

I’m slowly but surely becoming someone else. I’m not certain it’s who I want to be or who I wanted to be or who I will want to be but it’s like, the only solution (like). It’s all about… something.

I feel like disastrous climate change etc. is going to cut short our progress as a species. I think we should go into space. Maybe we can’t solve problems apparently intrinsic to human society - but if we can, it’d be almost unforgivable to give up. What a dilemma, ha ha ha!

Just concentrate on your breathing and slow it down and don’t think about anything. Initially, your mind will wander as it doesn’t usually get the chance, I guess (unless it does, in which case you’re ahead of me and like, should forget this). After a while you’ll have it, you know, down. You’ll make patterns with your thoughts and then you can be really calm and just sort of forget about the petty things that might ruin you.

Yes - I’m testing my theory.

Pax

*socialism? meritocracy?