[lit-ideas] Can't buy me love...












They say the best things in life are free.  And in fact they are.  But, good 
old fashioned over-hyped money stays eternally popular.  Here are some thoughts 
on the subject.  Starting with greed.  The lyrics of this song are about sex, 
it's true, but money, like sex, would be nowhere near taken to the heights it 
is if nature didn't abhor a vacuum:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SjjPYV5Wgg
 
Now that's out of the way, a little summary of the importance of money to the 
world:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sor9GzivGbk
 
And here's life without enough of it:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GOkc6aEfkM&feature=fvw
 
And its eternal exploitation, this time in the service of fossil fuels:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
 
And one of Jane Austin's themes:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPIFm_Rajo
 
I love the sinister quality of this.  Why else money?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY
 
And finally, money, just plain old beautiful delicious money:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRIbUT6u7Q
 
 
 
 

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