Dollarist

Dollarist t1_j5udq42 wrote

To clarify, he’s not saying that he didn’t know how to play keyboards when he joined the band. He’s saying that the previous keyboardist was fired for being too intrusively loud, so he turned the volume of his keyboards all the way down and listened to the songs.

Then he went home and wrote tasteful, unobtrusive keyboard parts. Pretty smart, actually.

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Dollarist t1_j1l6lrp wrote

The Demon-Haunted World, yes. “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

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Dollarist t1_iud4zcw wrote

She lived in that tree. For two years. Really.

Got famous. Wrote a book about it. Worked as an activist. Burnt out on celebrity and now lives quietly.

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