The Logical Song: What Have We Accepted as True Without Ever Choosing It?
Some songs ask questions that refuse to age. Supertramp’s “The Logical Song” begins in childhood, in a world experienced as beautiful, magical, and full of possibility. Then education begins. Expectations arrive. The child is taught how to become sensible, practical, dependable, acceptable, and appropriately defined. But beneath all that learning, a more troubling question survives:…