The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.
God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
The stores and the things like that the business side of things came out at the point when I'd say probably in the early '70s it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.