Know Thyself #156

Know Thyself though EXCESS

The three best known Delphic maxims – “Know thyself”, “Nothing in excess”, and “Give a pledge and trouble is at hand” – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally said to have been authored by the legendary Seven Sages of Greece, or even by Apollo. In fact, they are more likely to have simply been popular proverbs.

I do not want to discuss Delphic Maxims, I’ll get to that eventually, but I would like to talk about ‘nothing INXS‘. Per Wikipedia, the expression ‘Nothing in excess’ was:

The maxim has been said to have received its “ultimate expression” inAristotle’s theory of ethics, according to which every classical virtue occupies a middle place between the two extremes of excess and deficiency.

So this has been a problem for awhile….

In 1987 the INXS released the Kick album, on which keyboardist Andrew Farriss wrote the lyrics to the song “Mediate.”

According to grokipedia.com the lyrics: ‘revolve around themes of emotional mediation, interpersonal compromise, and achieving balance in relationships and society through wordplay and rhythmic repetition.’

I suggest you read the words with Andrew’s goals in mind when you watch/listen along with the song, you definitely need the beat. Then decide what you think about his cures and/or what YOU could do to achieve balance in your relationships and the current society. I highlighted words I particularly like…

Mediate Video

Mediate by Andres Farriss from INXS:

Hallucinate, desegregate
Mediate, alleviate
Try not to hate, love your mate
Don’t suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one-world state as human freight
The number eight, a white-black state
A gentle trait, the broken crate
A heavy weight or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
Now devastate, appreciate
Depreciate, fabricate
Emulate, the truth dilate
Special date, the animals we ate
Guilt debate, the edge serrate
A better rate, the youth irate
Deliberate, fascinate
Deviate, reinstate

Liberate to moderate
Recreate or detonate
Annihilate, atomic fate
Mediate, clear the slate
Activate, now radiate
A perfect state, food on plate
Gravitate, the Earth’s own weight
Designate your love as fate
At ninety-eight we all rotate

Hallucinate, desegregate
Mediate, alleviate
Try not to hate, love your mate
Don’t suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one-world state as human freight
The number eight, a white-black state
A gentle trait, the broken crate
A heavy weight or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
Now devastate, appreciate
Depreciate, fabricate
Emulate, the truth dilate
Special date, the animals we ate
Guilt debate, the edge serrate
A better rate, the youth irate
Deliberate, fascinate
Deviate and reinstate

Liberate, to liberate…

Last Updated on 07/08/2026 by Death of Hypatia Inc.