David Lang

I guess I feel like this is a kind of mirror, but music is not really about specific things.

Music is about how we feel about things.

When we talk about the community which is created by people who pass money from one person to the next, how do we feel about that?

There isn't necessarily a way to change how that system operates

until we deal with how we react emotionally to how that system makes us feel.

And we try not to pay attention to it.

We try not to pay attention to the life of the people who sell us things or the life of the people that we sell to.

We think that everything is frictionless.

We're trying to live more and more in a world where we never meet the people who take care of us.

We never meet the people that we employ.

The invisible hand is just taking care of it all.

That's exactly right.

And maybe that's not such a good thing.

Maybe we need to pay attention to what all of those hands are contributing to each other.

And if you do pay attention to all those hands, maybe you care about how those people live.

Maybe you care about whether those people have enough money.

Maybe you care about, are their children being educated?

Are they able to go to the hospital when they need to?

Maybe there's a whole network of things that we are trying to keep ourselves from seeing.

I think any situation where you can imagine a better world is kind of like a...