Welcome to the Machine

"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine." — Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (1975)

Before you read anything else today — put on Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd.

Don’t analyze it. Don’t think about what it means. Don’t read along with the lyrics. Just listen to the machinery of it. The cold welcome. The mechanical hum that sounds like something that was always running in the background.

Sit with it for seven minutes and thirty secon…