padraig (u.s.)
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it's basically the same impulse
we have to have comforts like music so our soldiers don't become miserable/insane, but we can't have music that will encourage them to be unwarlike
Is music good for one?
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we have to have comforts like music so our soldiers don't become miserable/insane, but we can't have music that will encourage them to be unwarlike
padraig (u.s.)
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with the same lunatic idea that some bureaucrat can decide what the appropriate and inappropriate music is
padraig (u.s.)
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there's a Platonic ideal of satisfaction which can never be achieved
but sometimes, if you try real hard, you can achieve some knowledge of satisfaction that suffices your needs
Mick Jagger, confirmed neoplatonist
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padraig (u.s.)
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all ambient music is de facto music for bureaucrats
padraig (u.s.)
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music for people on business trips
music for elevators, lobbies, departure gates
music for elevators, lobbies, departure gates
padraig (u.s.)
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but also, I'm not just trying to shoehorn in Plato, it's directly relevant to "is music good for you"
his answer being yes, but only in a qualified and specific way, for a specific purpose, not in and of itself for aesthetic reasons
which isn't my view, but is an interesting view, in part because it's so far from ours
his answer being yes, but only in a qualified and specific way, for a specific purpose, not in and of itself for aesthetic reasons
which isn't my view, but is an interesting view, in part because it's so far from ours
luka
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Don't write this on your humanist minister job application form
Simon silverdollarcircle
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I'm ill today - one of those bugs where you vomit all the time - and I currently find music repellent in just the same way as I find food repellent at the moment.
A sense that it would just make me feel nauseous, unbalance me, make me sicker.
How do vibrations in the air do this? But I'm sure they do.
A parallel between music and food might be one way to answer Matt's original question. Both are necessary to human life, but both also put a load on you, physically. And we can't always bear that load
A sense that it would just make me feel nauseous, unbalance me, make me sicker.
How do vibrations in the air do this? But I'm sure they do.
A parallel between music and food might be one way to answer Matt's original question. Both are necessary to human life, but both also put a load on you, physically. And we can't always bear that load
maqam rast is like if you start on g, the third note is between A sharp and b, yes, a quartertone between.
what they call half flattened in the west. similarly the 7th is between e sharp and f, so you get a mode that is not quite dorian.
Plato was far too uncultivated to understand such though.
what they call half flattened in the west. similarly the 7th is between e sharp and f, so you get a mode that is not quite dorian.
Plato was far too uncultivated to understand such though.
