It really is bizzare.  I ask people about the lyrics in the songs that they're listening to.... and they don't have a clue what the lyrics actually are.

And if you ask someone to listen to a song, they comment on the melody not the words.  The meaning is a song is the words, the point is the words.  The melody is the vehicle by which the meaning is delivered, but it isn't the point.

And yet, as with everything else, people are going with what makes them feel good and DOESN'T make them think. God forbid anyone actually think about anything! We might be forced to realize that the Federal Reserve just bailed out Bear Sterns and averted a complete economic melt down (See Wall St. Journal for more) the like we've never seen.  God forbid people might have to think about something and actually understand something before acting instead of acting on their ignorant whim!

I wonder how bad things are going to get before people are actually willing to engage their brains?  The scary thing about everything that is happening right now is that people aren't trying to solve the problems, They're trying to just make them go away so that they don't have to think about it, and can claim that "they tried".  As far as I know, at no other time in history has an entire population run from their minds.  And while music is a trivial thing, I think it's all related.  We've created serveral generations of people affraid to think because if they do they'll get stuck in the quagmire of subjectivism and moral equivalence and get confused and then their heads will hurt. 

Sad.