Like It the Way It Is

For March we're doing sayings we should be able to say. Here is one I often think. In a proper world one could say the title, or just sing the la-da-da-da-da, and people would get it.

Pete Townshend - I Like It The Way It Is (Youtube)

This is the second-smartest thing I've ever seen a human say, and it's funnysad like blueblack. Two reasons people love Mr. Townshend.

This is the demo; Scoop 3 has a glossy orchestration. "A sadly prophetic song that I have suppressed for many years . . . I very rarely write material of this strength and honesty." The first- was a psychologist, that the human brain evolved to maintain social relationships, not to evaluate propositions. I think that explains about 40% of human events. I bet it was a woman in the New York Times around 2010. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Like it the Way it Is," RSS Longa, 13 March 2025, public domain via CC0 1.0.