Wit & Attitude Quote by Dave Davies

Davies is catching a cultural reflex in real time: when the outside world feels ungovernable, the only territory that seems even partly negotiable is the self. Coming from a musician whose career rode waves of postwar optimism, counterculture upheaval, and media acceleration, the line reads less like New Age navel-gazing and more like a veteran’s field report. “Turning inward” isn’t presented as indulgence; it’s triage.

The phrasing matters. “Weird, crazy” is deliberately unspecific, a blunt instrument that lets listeners plug in their own anxieties: political chaos, economic precarity, climate dread, algorithmic overload. That vagueness is the point. It mirrors how modern crisis is experienced - not as one clean catastrophe but as a constant ambient disturbance. Davies meets that feeling with plainspoken language, the kind rock musicians use when they’re trying to speak across generations without sounding like pundits.

The subtext is a quiet challenge to the outward-facing scripts of productivity and performance. “What it is really that they are doing” implies that many people were operating on autopilot until reality interrupted. Even “how do we interact” frames the problem as relational rather than purely personal: the inner turn is preparation for a better outward stance, not an escape hatch. Calling it “a very important time” resists cynicism. It’s not optimism so much as responsibility - the idea that disorientation can be a doorway to choice, and that art, reflection, and community become survival skills when the world stops making sense.