We live in a world where there is instant access to gratification. Take Pandora for example. Pandora is just one of the many music websites where a listener can choose what to listen to.

Since we live in a money orientated world all it takes for a person to have ‘commercial free’ broadcasting on Pandora, and also to utilize other ‘time saving’ options, just pay a monthly fee.

Yes, this world today is one of instant, instant, instant. Don’t like whats being played? Push ‘forward’. Like what’s being played? Push ‘replay’. Heck, you can even combine songs and listen to them as they are mixed together.

It would be an interesting study to see how many ‘young’ people still listen to the radio. Do you? Are you one of those ‘instant’ pleasure takers? Change the channel? Maybe you go through sex partners faster than a rock falls of a cliff onto your head?

Instant satisfaction. Instant soup. Microwave popcorn. Fast. Faster. Fastest. I say, “Fuck it all.” And in the translation of “Fuck it all.” I mean, slow the fuck down.

Everyone is in such a hurry. They all think in terms of seconds or minutes. Some think in terms of years. I think of centuries.

Everything worthy of historical significance can only come about after thousands of years pass a set point in an albeit arbitrary consciousness. Look at the Neanderthals. A great bunch that was needed so the homo sapiens got a shot at the clock.

Roman empire. Chinese dynasties. Aztecs. Egyptians. Now that is a perfect example of slowing it all down. Today… damn, what a bunch of hyped up idiots.

You see, it’s not just about satisfaction and happiness. In nature there usually is more pain and failure than satisfaction and happiness. Just ask any mouse that is currently dangling from the claws of a hawk, a hawk who just scored a meal and will soon be hit by a car filled with some idiots listening to something gratifying for a second until they become bored and switch to something else, else, else, else, else…

One good thing I love about the radio is that you have to listen to what they play. Some songs might make me happy and tap my feet and others make me want to turn off the radio except then I’d miss the next good song.

Also, listening to the radio makes you listen to commercials, news, all the stuff that either grates the mind or pleases it. The radio is actually a great representation of past civilizations… Some is good, some is bad, but all is needed.

This is why today was good. The Sun shined, the Moon shined, the temperature was perfect, the sky clear, the work pleasing, the conversation excellent, and I listened to the radio.