eq72521 Wrote: > Agreed. Actually, shortly after posting yesterday I thought about this > and meant to follow-up post and rescind the malignance I was > implicitely attributing to the industry. If anything, there is an > implicit malignance in the system as a whole, of which we are all a > part.
There is a very strong tendency for humans to believe that "all other humans are just like me". Each person perceives the world in very different ways, and each person places and gains enormously different values on/from various experiences in life. In this music case, many simply enjoy that basic structure of a song (its melody, beat, lyrics), while others desire to hear every instrument in perfect pitch and clarity (and perhaps don't know or care about the lyrics). It is a mistake to think that if others were simply enlightened, they would change their views and see the light, so to speak. This leads to the "let me show you the *right* way to live" syndrome, and the corollary to that, and message received by others, is "you don't know how to live correctly". Any entity focusing their efforts on mass appeal will provide only what the masses require, and typically no more. Those on the fringe (ie. all those not considering themselves part of the masses) need to find alternate means to satisfy their requirements. Trying to change the masses on things they don't care about is futile and, frankly, more selfish than selfless. -- MrC _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
