With its focus on musicians rather than cops, the show lobbied for the city's philosophy — life as a parade!
A saying he would occasionally use came to epitomise for many Australians his government's philosophy: "Life wasn't meant to be easy".
In his philosophy, life and theater are related enterprises; ordinary citizens are actors who are simply unaware of the play, and everyone can make theater, even the untrained.
I had not met Robert Rubin before today, though I was graceless enough to review his book, and to suggest that while as three-word philosophy "Life is Uncertain" wasn't bad, it wasn't as rich as that of the great Austin ice cream parlour known as Amy's: "Life is Uncertain.
Encouraging Tasha's good-time side, Val attempts to warm up her frosty colleague with philosophy: "Life is a balancing act: hot and cold, earth and water, yin and... that other thing," she says, before curling up behind Tasha as they bed down for the night.
Although it never sold in anything like the numbers envisaged by Fuller, nevertheless he went on to become highly feted wherever he travelled and talked: his fascinating lectures spanning technology, engineering, environmentalism, philosophy, life and the universe could go on for hours on end.
