Philosophy, Country Music, and Bill Gates
ByWARNING: This post may make me sound a little crazy.
I am a philosophy major. I believe it is the philosopher in me that forces me ask a million questions about the simplest idea. However, I am presenting these questions to you today because I am really perplexed.
I love country music. (no giggling please) Recently, this song came on the radio and it is a really beautiful song. Until the end…and this is where it loses me. They start talking about Bill Gates and Microsoft. Please listen to the song. Then answer me these questions.
-Do you think Microsoft paid for this placement?
-How does he know that Bill Gates loved like crazy to become successful? Did he interview him?
-In what way is a man with six children who can barely pay his bills correlate with a millionaire?
-Would this song be better off without the mention?
I told you this would make me sound crazy. But, seriously? Is it just me or does this not fit together well??
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Another perspective, maybe:
I don’t think the line is about Bill Gates. In my mind, the song is a series of events in which people commit to their “crazy” ideas and end up successful as a result of that dogged determination. So I think the man who sells his ideas to Microsoft is *not* Bill Gates, but the owner of a one-man shop who earned a huge paycheck through that sale, allowing him to pursue something else. What do you think?
That is a good theory!
However, he specifically references Microsoft. So, even if the point was just that you can be successful doing something so crazy and small why did he choose Bill Gates as the example?
Why not a random story? Like the first guy was just a random guy who was married with a lot of kids and very poor. The second guy was a very specific man.
It truly is a mystery to me. I do love the song though :)