I’m having one of those moments where the “real world” suddenly seems utterly surreal — a friend of mine is getting married in Hawaii on Monday, so I’m sitting in LAX waiting for the plane. There’s a muzak version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” playing, and I can’t help but wonder what committee, focus group, or other ambiguous mass of individuals concluded that this<\/i> was what should be playing in airports. I’d bet large sums of money that not a single person in that focus group preferred the muzak version to the original, but groups have a way of doing things that individuals never would.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile at least half of the passengers are wearing these god-awful Hawaiin shirts, and while I’ll laugh along with the people who wear them as a statement of leaving everything behind (“I’m wearing it because I can<\/i>“), I’m disturbed at the thought that some of them are wearing something like that because “this is what you wear in Hawaii”. Maybe having just finished re-reading Atlas Shrugged<\/u> and watching “Fight Club” has made me cynical, but sitting here I just can’t make this environment feel like it’s in any way grounded in reality… Luckily tomorrow I’ll be on a volcano with the jungle and the Pacific spread out around me, and there’s no doubt as to the reality of that environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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