Internet hopping in financial news and commentary recently I came across both a “buy” and a “sell” recommendation for a given stock recently issued by two different experts on the same day. It caused me to chuckle, but only briefly, as it was followed by the thought, well, the reality, that like these guys, 1) no matter how much I think I know about something, there are and will always be differing takes, and 2) no matter how much I think I know about something there’s a WHOLE LOT MORE I don’t know. Songwriter/musicians, in this sense, seem to be much wiser (or at least less sure of things) than financial experts:
The Avett Brothers’, in Smithsonian, admit: “Turns out we don’t get to know everything.”
And then there’s Iris Dement’s Let the Mystery Be:
“Everybody is wondering why and where they all came from
Everybody is worried ‘bout where they’re gonna go when the whole thing’s done
But no one knows for certain, and so it’s all the same to me
I think I’ll just, let the mystery be.”
When in doubt, stick with the songwriter/musicians, at least the good ones.
It occurs to me... 