The Bug's Eye View
I was listening to Cold Krush Cuts and the monologue on the tracks Harmonic and Mod You really moved me:
People who fly have a different view of the world than those who spend their lives on the ground. A very wise man once wrote a poem while he was flying, and he called this poem "The God's Eye View," and he said that this view was entirely different than the view he always had on the ground, which he called "The Bug's Eye View."Out there, somewhere, in the air we fly through, exists an old Persian legend much like this poem about a bug who spent his entire life in the world's most beautifully designed Persian rug. All the bug ever saw in his lifetime were his problems. They stood up all around him. He couldn't see over the top of them, and he had to fight his way through these tufts of wool in the rug to find the crumbs that people had spilled on the rug. And the tragedy of the story of the bug in the rug was this: that he lived and he died in the world's most beautifully designed rug, but he never once knew that he spent his life inside something which had a pattern. Even if he, this bug, had even once gotten above the rug so that he could have seen all of it, he would have discovered something - that the very things he called his problems were a part of the pattern.
Have you ever felt like that bug in the rug? That you are so surrounded by your problems that you can't see any pattern to the world in which you live? Have you heard anybody say lately that the world is a total mess? That, my friends, is the Bug's Eye View, and seeing only a little of the world, we might be inclined to think that this is true.
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Posted March 23, 2006 3:17 PM
Comments
that album was the first time i heard that, too
D, July 29, 2006 6:51 PM
i love that story of the bug in the rug, give you real perspective, i listened to it a couple times once while flying to the west coast. Thanks for posting this.
Marckus, September 28, 2006 8:54 AM
thanks for posting this! does anyone know who the man is speaking in those two tracks? i've been trying to track down where that spoken-word came from.
chris, December 19, 2006 7:36 PM
That album is great. That track is one of my favorites.
Cavan, March 26, 2009 11:29 PM
Yeah, would like to know that, too!
Who is the guy and whats the name of the record?
Searching for that since years...
cyclo, June 12, 2009 6:04 PM
Utterly astounding album!
And i totally adore the monologue - really puts things into perspective.
Does anyone know where the poem originally came from? The speaker mentions a name at the start, but i cant decipher it. Something like "Don Glandly"...
Anyone able to help out?
J0rdz, July 21, 2009 11:57 PM
I know that the song was made by "DJ Krush," a Japanese artist.
carlton bradford, August 15, 2009 3:18 PM
Just discovered this record on my ipod, would also love to know where the monologue is from.
How can we find out?
Eddy, August 27, 2009 5:46 AM
The poet who wrote the God's Eye View is Don Blanding and the poem is in the book Pilot Bails Out. The speaker might be evangelical preacher Billy Graham according to one or two references on the web but nothing definitive. The vocal style is similar though. It's a beautiful little sermon...
Duncan, September 28, 2009 10:13 PM
I'm interested in figuring this out too. I don't think it's Billy Graham, based on listening to video interviews with him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lwx3Wc18Mc
I'm curious about this phrase: "that's why i want to get you up in the air tonight." Maybe it's from a flight instruction video? Seems like a stretch.
Andrew Miller, November 19, 2009 3:16 PM
U heard ColdCut´s Journeys by DJ.... It has this on it.... The mix was like my Bible for years!!! It was made in 1995 i think... U gotta hear it!
ChrisMeerkat, January 12, 2010 5:36 AM
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