JAN 20- Schopenhauer Was Wrong, and Has No Followers- (2nd Workout Mix)

Henceforth this post will serve to provide examples each week in music that clearly demonstrate the innaccuracy of the quote by Arthur Schopenhauer of the overly dark view of what he called the "real nature of the world".

It is my contention that the position outlined in the quote by Schopenhauer below has no genuine long term followers and adherents. This is because anyone who truly embraces the position outlined below is dead by their own hand shortly thereafter. Thus any thinker who claims to be a long-term adherent of this position in truth is really only an adherent of complaining about life. Schopenhauer has no real followers in Philosophy.

How do the songs with themes below belong in a post against the negative Philosophy of Schopenhauer?? Simple- one person's terrible and false philosophy of life is another person's awesome workout mix!!(below is the 2nd group of workout mix music)

And after an hour and a half of hard sports, anybody feeling "the edge" in these songs-of work or the commute- discovers that it goes away all by itself, with only endorphin release.

Who would have thunk that both one of the real weak points and in my mind the only real strong point in Schopenhauer's philosophy are both functionally connected and subordinate to endorphin release through healthy exercise??!!

In some places it's the season to hit the slopes...in the spring it will be time for putting on skates and rollerblading along Lake Michigan in Chicago, hitting the wave wall at Shedd Aquarium or the stairs at the Field museum, and asphalt basketball in the cities.

Green day- Basket Case
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7PKybyoxc

Foo Fighters- Everlong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0BMfqFP9c

Rage Against the Machine
Killing in the Name Of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkuOAY-S6OY

Guerilla Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3xM3v4-rI

Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ

Evanescence- Bring Me to Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TILCIRspO0

Schopenhauer: "The purpose of this highest poetical achievement is the description of the terrible side of life. The unspeakable pain, the wretchedness and misery of mankind, the triumph of wickedness, the scornful mastery of chance, and the irretriveable fall of the good and the innocent are all here presented to us; and here is to be found a significant hint as to the nature of the world and of existence...The motives that were previously so powerful now lose their force, and instead of them the complete knowledge of the real nature of the world, acting as a quieter of the will, produces resignation, the giving up not merely of life, but of the whole will-to-live itself".

Previously Featured:

Linkin Park- Numb, What I've Done, In the End, Daughtry- Its Not Over, There and Back Again, Metallica- Enter Sandman, From Phantom of the Opera: Think of Me, Music of the Night, All I ask of You, Masquerade, Prima Donna, Colbie Caillat- Bubbly, John Mayer- Your body is a wonderland, Sting - Fields of gold, Sarah Mclachlan- Ice cream, Don Henley - End of the Innocence, Gloria Estefan- 'Oye Mi Canto', Juanes- 'La Camisa Negra', Chambao- 'Ahi Estas Tu', Ricky Martin & Mari de 'Chambao'- Tu Recuerdo, Sublime- 'Santeria', Counting Crows- 'Angels of the Silences', Led Zeppelin- 'Fool in the Rain', Tim McGraw- 'Something Like That', Jessia Andrews- 'Who I Am', Michael Jackson- 'I'll Be There', 'Never Can Say Goodbye', 'Black or White', 'Man in the Mirror', 'Thriller', Fifth Dimension/Marilyn McCoo-'Wedding Bell Blues', 'Stone Soul Picnic', 'One Less Bell to Answer'(her voice and the music are beautiful, despite the words), 'You Don't Have to Be a Star', 'Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In', Fleetwood Mac- 'Sarah', Pearl Jam- 'Even Flow', John Mayer- 'Daughters', Carrie Underwood- 'All American Girl', Pretenders- 'Show Me', Jackson 5- ABC, Eric Clapton- 'Wonderful Tonight', Elvis, Gloria Estefan- '1, 2, 3', , Stevie Ray Vaughn- 'Little Wing', Taylor Swift- 'Our Song', Stevie Wonder- 'Isn't She Lovely', Mariah Carey- 'Always Be My Baby'