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RE: Priming an audience: Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 22 entry MUSIC
First song made me feel like of.. Somber. Tis a beautiful song though.
The Auditory Illusions was pretty fascinating!
Second song kind of makes me feel like I'm in a royal palace or something.
There is much evidence (musical and otherwise) to suggest that it was supposed to be a piece of unbridled joy and striving, new discovery, and wonder... Well, I guess a wedding ceremony is supposed to be the same...
Heh.
Even if it is wedding music, classical music still tends to relax and calm me. There's something about it that is very soothing.
In regards to how I feel about the final song.. It almost has an angelic feeling to it.
Great entry! Thanks for sharing and for teaching me something new!
There has been an unfortunate development in the last century or so to divorce music from speech. Which leads to the idea of perpetual beauty of tone and sound. Unfortunately, endless beauty is meaningless. Things are only beautiful in comparison, so you need contrasts.
Unfortunately, this infection is so deep, that you have difficulty convincing musicians (classical) to make hard or harsh sounds, even when it is apparent that the music requires them to do that. There is an instinctive stepping away from the edge...
This has led to the idea that classical music is soothing, when in fact it should span the entirety of human emotions, both ugly and angelic.
I think this is mostly umm.. In a more compartmentalized way. The average person has been separated from it, however the powers that shouldn't be are using it a lot to control people through popular entertainment. Music is one of their main forms of mind control. Get a good sounding beat, and then put some trash words in there and you'll have people jamming and feeling good to really unhealthy and even immoral ideology. A classic example of this is the mainstream rap culture of "Kill them and fuck the hoes and do drugs and be a piece of shit' essentially.. But.. Pretty much all different styles of music do this as well. Except you could argue, songs with no lyrics. Though.. Pretty much all major mainstream music in my opinion is designed to sound good, and deliver a segregated form of behavior which the people in power desire the population to possess.
You may highly disagree with that, but.. I truly believe that. I've done a lot of research into the entertainment aspect of the occult, and the people in power are clearly hiding all kinds of messages in popular music, and not just in the lyrics either. But subliminal and supraliminal as well in music videos and album covers etc etc etc.
I used to listen to classical music a lot so I definitely can vibe with this! I've felt all different kinds of emotions from different songs and styles. Which I think is both a good thing and pretty fascinating if you think about it. How certain tones/sounds in different combinations create such response among our brains. Though I'ma stop myself before I rant on forever as I have a bunch of other messages I need to try to get to. Cheers.
Sorry, the part you first quoted was specifically about classical music and not more! But it might have parallel to what you were talking about. The making of classical music into a saleable product has debased many of the things that made it meaningful. Thus the focus meaningless beauty and an emphasis on the visual in an auditory art!
I have to say, the defining of music tastes and musical success by a small group of gatekeepers has been a disaster. Not financially for those in the loop, but for the art firm of music in general. I'm hopeful this wave of decentralisation will go in some part to fixing this abuse of power.
Although, in not sure I would have enough to support where I think you are going with your conclusions! I prefer to blame the mass impact of many individual greed impulses and preservation of mediocrity above a conspiracy! Perverse incentives.
Ah.. Oops my bad for the misunderstanding. Lol..
I do agree it has been a disaster for art in general, and whether simple greed or something deeper, in the end it's still both of those things in my opinion. It's greed and a conspiracy, a conspiracy is just a group of people coming together with a similar goal. Though.. In regards to my kind of conspiracy, yeah I don't expect you to agree with me there. I think it's part of a larger plot to dumb people down and control them. And.. I think you rarely ever get to the pinnacle of fame without being in one of the secret societies. During my research I've found almost every major famous person eventually leads to a secret society, even going back hundreds of years. That doesn't necessarily mean they are all bad, but.. When the world is so messed up and they don't speak out about it, it makes one wonder.
A mass of individual desires and a conspiracy have similar outcomes, but I think they are different in the cure.
A gathering of individual desires suggests that the system and power structures give incentives to act and behave in a certain way. For instance, if we don't place a price on pollution, then there is no real incentive for the mass of the population to favour a cleaner ecosystem. To paraphrase, it is a bit odd to expect that a system that favours maximising personal gain could produce a net social good. In this interpretation (my preferred, unfortunately), people act in a greater good way only if it somehow benefits them (not necessarily in a financial sense). Thus, the way to harness this is to create rules and power structures that channel these individual desires.
In a conspiracy (please correct me if I'm wrong!), the idea is that there is something that is holding back the natural development of society. In that case, the cure is to target the cancer and then things will go to their natural state. It is a more optimistic view, as it suggests that if people were left to develop freely then a potentially better society would emerge? Although, I'm much more pessimistic about this. I would suggest that even if that was possible, a new "power centre" would develop.
I generally agree with your ideas here and I think you have a great way with words and putting these kinds of things into mental pictures.
I suppose that's possible, but this would almost imply this is our human nature. Which is possible.. But.. I'd like to believe we're not limited or confined to this and that there is a better way. I think perhaps in time if enough people learn to truly learn deep spiritual concepts like the "golden rule" then.. No one would ever on purpose try to infringe on others again, that would leave mostly just accidents and people accidentally hurting each other.. But.. I think if everyone truly learned the golden rule, there would be no desire to rule over each other.
I think it is the nature of a large group of individuals (humans and otherwise). I do remember reading a paper about the optimum balance of selfish and altruistic members of a society (animal). It turns out that a balance of the two is required for a stable society.
Completely selfish is destructive, but completely altruistic should also be unstable. A small mutation to have a slightly more selfish trait would in a few generations completely dominate.
I forget the balance though, just that the point of stability was somewhere in between. Admittedly, it is a simplistic model, but I think the idea that a completely altruistic society is unfortunatly not as stable a community as we would hope to believe it would be.
I need to see more data about how altruism is harmful in society before I can comment. I just don't even know how to interpret that without more information.
I would be curious if you could bring me more information about this, cause I'd like to see how selfishness is a good thing and too much altruism is bad. I'm genuinely curious too, not being sarcastic. Please lemme know if you can go into more detail on that.