And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ... hadn’t I better end my “Notes” here? I believe I made a mistake in beginning to write them, anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I’ve been writing this story; so it’s hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment. Why, to tell long stories, showing how I have spoiled my life through morally rotting in my corner, through lack of fitting environment, through divorce from real life, and rankling spite in my underground world, would certainly not be interesting; a novel needs a hero, and all the traits for an anti-hero are expressly gathered together here, and what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are...
Hope
To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.--
Erich Fromm
Hotel California----You can checkout any time you like but you can never leave
Why is Hotel California by the Eagles so hated yet so beloved? >>>
"I know exactly why. It’s because it’s because it was one of the most played FM singles of all time, and people can’t stand listening to it anymore. On the other hand, it’s too ingrained in our cultural framework to get rid of. "
The message in their early music was a quintessentially optimistic one, perfect for a troubled nation still reeling from the Vietnam War and social turmoil – Richard Aquila
What is Hotel California song about ?
The song "Hotel California" is
an allegory about hedonism, greed, and the self-destructive nature of the "high life" in Los Angeles during the 1970s. According to the Eagles' primary lyricist Don Henley, it is meant to depict the "dark underbelly of the American Dream".
While fans have debated its meaning for decades, the band has provided several official explanations:
Loss of Innocence: Henley frequently describes the song as a "journey from innocence to experience".
The Music Industry: It serves as a commentary on the "uneasy balance between art and commerce" and the corrupting nature of the music business.
Sociopolitical Statement: Henley has noted that certain lines, such as the one about the "spirit" not being available since 1969, are sociopolitical metaphors rather than literal references to alcohol.
"HOTEL CALIFORNIA" | You’ve Never Heard It Like This!
'Fair-weather fans and the plain uncool': How the Eagles' Greatest Hits broke the US charts
Released 50 years ago this year, Their Greatest Hits isn't on any "best album of all time" lists, yet it's sold more than The Dark Side of the Moon, Purple Rain and Abbey Road combined – why is it so phenomenally popular?
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), released 50 years ago this year, is the Eagles' defining work. In fact, you could argue that it's the defining work of American pop music. On 22 January this year, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the LP the first ever quadruple diamond certification, for 40 million copies sold. It's officially the most popular album of all time in the US, and one of the top five globally.
The Eagles reminded older listeners of what they had loved about the '60s, with all the radical experimentation and political idealism removed – Peter Doggett
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