Wednesday, December 7, 2011

I know what I know



I was listening to the album Graceland by Paul Simon earlier and heard the song "I Know What I Know" and it got me to thinking about what the hell I do know.

Things I'm pretty sure about: The sun will come up tomorrow, I'll go to work, the city won't forget about my parking tickets, politicians will say anything to get votes, 5 degrees feels colder in Boston than in Denver.

Things I'm not very sure about: objective vs subjective morality, God, what I'm doing with my life, the acceleration of universal expansion, cleaning up my computers hard drive, finding a better job, the solution to the US debt crisis, the 2012 Presidential election, string theory.

I know for a fact that I really like the Graceland album and most of Paul Simon's other work. While the album is rich with sounds of Africa, the cover seems to suggest an English knight ready for a crusade. Chalk that up under the category of things I'm not quite sure about.