Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Studied Mediocrity lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Studied Mediocrity lyrics]
It's instructive to go to
A professional professors' meeting
In my field, which is philosophy
You got to a congress of philosophers
And you'll find, when they all get together
In the bar or in the restaurant
In somebody's room the one thing they don't
Talk about is philosophy
It is very bad form indeed to show
Interest in philosophy among your colleagues
The same is exactly true in clergy
Gatherings they don't talk about religion
What they both talk about is politics
Church politics and academic politics
'Cause it's bad form to be
Brilliant on a faculty
Because it outclasses your colleagues
Thereforе, faculty people tend to cultivatе
The studied mediocrity (Studied mediocrity)
The studied mediocrity (Studied mediocrity)
And you gotta watch out for that i mean
If you get mobs of students
Coming to your lectures
You get pretty black looks
From your colleagues but you see, what it is
It's scholarship about scholarship
And not scholarship
Just as learning because learning is good
For you is irrelevant to learning
The whole idea of improving
Yourself by learning
Is irrelevant to the learning process
And in the same way, doing business
Is doing business doing business, such as
Manufacturing clothes
Is a very good thing to do
I could conceive that it
Would be extremely enjoyable
Something one could be very proud
Of to make good clothes
Course you need to sell them
'cause you need to eat
But to make clothes to make money
Raises another question
Because then your interest is not in
Making clothes, it’s making money
And then you're gonna cheat on the clothes
And then you get an awful lot of money and
You don't know what to do with it
The studied mediocrity
(The studied mediocrity)
The studied mediocrity
(The studied mediocrity)
A professional professors' meeting
In my field, which is philosophy
You got to a congress of philosophers
And you'll find, when they all get together
In the bar or in the restaurant
In somebody's room the one thing they don't
Talk about is philosophy
It is very bad form indeed to show
Interest in philosophy among your colleagues
The same is exactly true in clergy
Gatherings they don't talk about religion
What they both talk about is politics
Church politics and academic politics
'Cause it's bad form to be
Brilliant on a faculty
Because it outclasses your colleagues
Thereforе, faculty people tend to cultivatе
The studied mediocrity (Studied mediocrity)
The studied mediocrity (Studied mediocrity)
And you gotta watch out for that i mean
If you get mobs of students
Coming to your lectures
You get pretty black looks
From your colleagues but you see, what it is
It's scholarship about scholarship
And not scholarship
Just as learning because learning is good
For you is irrelevant to learning
The whole idea of improving
Yourself by learning
Is irrelevant to the learning process
And in the same way, doing business
Is doing business doing business, such as
Manufacturing clothes
Is a very good thing to do
I could conceive that it
Would be extremely enjoyable
Something one could be very proud
Of to make good clothes
Course you need to sell them
'cause you need to eat
But to make clothes to make money
Raises another question
Because then your interest is not in
Making clothes, it’s making money
And then you're gonna cheat on the clothes
And then you get an awful lot of money and
You don't know what to do with it
The studied mediocrity
(The studied mediocrity)
The studied mediocrity
(The studied mediocrity)