Everyday People series of Toyota commercials in the late 1990s. The song's title is mentioned in the hit song by Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (For Lettin Me Be Myself Again)" in the third verse, along with their other hit "Dance to the Music". Soul singer Billy Paul covered the song on his 1970 album "Ebony Woman". Joan Jett's version appears on her 1983 release "Album". "Everyday People" by Ta Mara and the Seen was a minor hit in the Philippines in 1988. Aretha Franklin performed a version of the song for her 1991 album "What You See Is What
The Man Who Had No Idea others." John Clute, however, found it to be "unaccountably genial and without formal bite", such that its "potentially formidable idea gradually declines into doodle". In a 1984 interview, Disch described it as "a story about what our social relationships are really like" and "a springboard to the subject of what do we talk about when we talk about anything. What are all these social interactions "about"? What is the "subject" of them?" The Man Who Had No Idea "The Man Who Had No Idea" is a 1978 science fiction story by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published in "The