Hans Vaihinger + "Kicked in the Sun"

To complete something means almost nothing. You work hard, accomplish something, and in a matter of moments it is as if it never happened. It's on to the next thing with the attendant grief, stress, self-doubt, self-hatred, resentment, fear. You name it. (The list could go on for a long time.)

But that's life. We have to be pretend as if we're working towards something, that there is something actually to be achieved, even when it is not the case. It's the only thing we can do. It's all in our mind. (Oh, to be a student again! To be able to spend days and weeks reading Hans Vaihinger -- the great Neo-Kantian and founder of Kant-Studien! -- and his Philosophy of 'As If.' )

Sunday and again this evening I heard songs off Built To Spill's Perfect from Now On (1997) and was reminded what a great album it is. It carried a lot of weight at the end of the '90s and still sounds good today. This is "Kicked It In the Sun":