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Just a random video share tonight - because I love the song, and I think it's a great metaphor for the shallow competitiveness of today's show business. And not only for that, perhaps. I think it's actually a brilliant philosophical commentary on Western culture, in general. In less than 3 minutes. Sung by a guy with a very beautiful voice. The video isn't great quality, but it's a rare track and I'd rather share that than one of the "top hits" everybody knows anyway. So even if you're familiar with Marillion, you might not have heard this song. Which is - very ironically - called Number One...



Don't you ever wonder if this will to win is a weakness?... Why yes, I do. I've wondered about this for quite a while. It's hard not to, when you live in a country that claims to be "the best" in so many ways, while at the same time failing so miserably at upholding the simplest standards of human decency and compassion towards so many of its residents (I don't say "citizens", because - newsflash! - non-citizens are human too, even if this lovely and highly civilized administration chooses to refer to them as "aliens"). It's "survival of the fittest" (read: "the richest" and/or "the most privileged") around here; either you're "number one", or you're a loser. Well... sing me a song for the deliberate loser, Steve. <333

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Date: 2011-12-31 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vamp-ress.livejournal.com
Did I ever tell you that I absolutely love your taste in music?

That said, happy new year!!!

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Date: 2011-12-31 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com
Oh, I'm very pleased to hear that! :)

Happy New Year to you as well!

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Date: 2012-01-01 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anwyn-elfmaiden.livejournal.com
Awesome music.

And yes - it is true: Don't you ever wonder if this will to win is a weakness?
Things are getting the same over here. And we all are humans....

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Date: 2012-01-01 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com
The tide of intolerance and hatred in the world seems to be increasing these days, and it frightens me to see it. Why don't people realize that by treating others as inferior, they are working against themselves in the end?...

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Date: 2012-01-01 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anwyn-elfmaiden.livejournal.com
So true. Some maybe are too afraid to look in the mirror, and some just don't want. :/
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