leonard made a bad choice
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:01 pm
i've been listening to a song leonard sings on one of his CDs. it's called 'choices', and was written apparently by some chap called george jones. that's fair enough, but i'm having trouble coming to grips with the opening verse, which also serves as the chorus. it starts:
"i've had choices since the day that i was born, there were voices that told me right from wrong."
while at the hospital pharmacy today buying a scalpel, i happened upon a pediatrician with whom i share a casual acquaintanceship, and he told me that even though cognitive development begins at birth, no infant, not even a spoilt genius brat, is capable of making a normal intellectual decision on the day that it is born. so how could leonard be party to advancing such a blatant untruth, or did he just not think about the boastful bullshit that he was willing to shovel into his audience's ears? it's just a song, of course, but the lyrics betray a songwriter either with (a) no knowledge of how neurons in a newborn baby's brain need considerable time to connect with each other in order to establish basic reasoning, or (b) assumes that anyone listening to the text is a gullible fool who will swallow - hook, line and sinker - any arrogant nonsense they are fed. quite honestly, that opening line is such an insult to one's intelligence that it becomes unnecessary to waste time listening to the remaining three minutes. so many other songs leonard could have covered instead of this one.
"i've had choices since the day that i was born, there were voices that told me right from wrong."
while at the hospital pharmacy today buying a scalpel, i happened upon a pediatrician with whom i share a casual acquaintanceship, and he told me that even though cognitive development begins at birth, no infant, not even a spoilt genius brat, is capable of making a normal intellectual decision on the day that it is born. so how could leonard be party to advancing such a blatant untruth, or did he just not think about the boastful bullshit that he was willing to shovel into his audience's ears? it's just a song, of course, but the lyrics betray a songwriter either with (a) no knowledge of how neurons in a newborn baby's brain need considerable time to connect with each other in order to establish basic reasoning, or (b) assumes that anyone listening to the text is a gullible fool who will swallow - hook, line and sinker - any arrogant nonsense they are fed. quite honestly, that opening line is such an insult to one's intelligence that it becomes unnecessary to waste time listening to the remaining three minutes. so many other songs leonard could have covered instead of this one.
