So then, in music, though, one doesn't make the end of a composition the point of the
 composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest. And there
 would be composers who wrote only finales. People go to a concert just to hear one crashing
 chord because that's the end. Same way in dancing. You don't aim at a particular spot
 in the room. That's where you should arrive. The whole point of the dancing is the dance.
 But we don't see that as something brought by our education into our everyday conduct.
 We've got a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression. It's all
 graded. And what we do is we put the child into the corridor of this grade system with
 a kind of "Come on, kiddie, kiddie, kiddie!" And, "Yeah, you go to kindergarten," you know?
 And that's a great thing because when you finish that, you'll get into first grade.
 And then, come on, first grade leads to second grade, and so on, and then you get out of
 grade school and you go to high school, and it's revving up, the thing is coming. Then
 you're going to go to college, and by Joven you get into graduate school, and when you're
 through with graduate school, you go out to join the world. And then you get into some
 racket where you're selling insurance. And they've got that quota to make. And you're
 going to make that. And all the time, the thing is coming. It's coming, it's coming,
 that great thing, the success you're working for. Then when you wake up one day about 40
 years old, you say, "My God, I've arrived. I'm there!" And you don't feel very different
 from what you always felt. And there's a slight letdown because you feel there's a hoax. And
 there was a hoax, a dreadful hoax. They made you miss everything by expectation. Look at
 the people who live to retire and put those savings away. And then when they're 65, they
 don't have any energy left, they're more or less impotent, and they go and rot in an old
 people's senior citizens' community. Because we simply cheated ourselves the whole way
 down the line. We thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had
 a serious purpose at the end. The thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it
 is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It
 was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being
 played.
 Bye for now.


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