I can buy music is the most socially acceptable method of mental manipulation, seen as less harmful than things like coffee, sex, social media, electrodes in your brain. It’s so under the radar that the vast majority of people probably wouldn’t put it in a similar category. This is a fairly new sentiment though right? Rock and Roll, Rap, the possible apocryphal Riot during Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
Personally I don’t think we’ve overcorrected on the danger of music, as long as we don’t pretend it has zero effect. But I’m way more worried about the superstimuli making me refresh Twitter and TikTok all day long...
I can buy music is the most socially acceptable method of mental manipulation, seen as less harmful than things like coffee, sex, social media, electrodes in your brain. It’s so under the radar that the vast majority of people probably wouldn’t put it in a similar category. This is a fairly new sentiment though right? Rock and Roll, Rap, the possible apocryphal Riot during Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
Personally I don’t think we’ve overcorrected on the danger of music, as long as we don’t pretend it has zero effect. But I’m way more worried about the superstimuli making me refresh Twitter and TikTok all day long...