System Commodities. (Emile Munier..1840-1895..”May I have one too?”) System Commodities. Have you ever heard of the phrase : “system commodities”? It refers to the essential commodities required to keep a system…any system, operating at a satisfactory level..a continuity of mediocracy.. and any item superfluous to the accepted parameters of the needs of the system will not be seen as of any use. Interesting…I heard the phrase used by Bob Dylan in answer to a question put to him asking if he thought that music integrity has gotten worse these days…here’s his reply..: “Well..because there’s so much mediocracy going on, you know?..and anytime somebody really good comes along..it’s like, you can’t be too good, because you’re looked at..because you stand out, you know?…and people who stand out in an individual kind of way, they don’t fit into the system, you know, because they don’t sell, you know, they don’t keep system commodities go...
