The problem here that bothers me the most is that it's not a physical thing. It's the brain adapting a defense mechanism, not a mechanical or chemical failure of your metabolism. But the impact ultimately will be spiritual deprivation, because the music or the art will no longer be viewed with "clear" ears or eyes. There will not be a "first time" kind of experience; when in days of old, people wanted to hear music (because they recognized that their lives were barren without it), they would go to the town square to hear the sunday concert, saddle up and ride into town to the saloon, or the concert hall, save their pennies and buy a Victrola and a few cherished 78's. It was considered a special event, an important ingredient in their lives, and the ears and mind were open and ready to invest to this pursuit of spiritual adventure. Even if they decided they thought it was crap, they still heard it much more clearly than many of us can hear now, and THEY SOUGHT IT OUT because their lives were lacking this special experience. Hell, nowadays you can't get away from it.
> >>Cumulative effects of this are loss of perception. (just as though >>you stared at the sun directly all day! how's your vision now?) > > nice point. the thing about hearing loss is that it is typically not > something you notice deteriorating (except in the case of various > kinds of trauma); it's not like a muscle that suddenly hurts or that > you can feel getting "out of shape", or like a cut on your skin that > you can watch bleeding and healing (or getting infected). any > changes that occur do so at such slow pace that most people simply > get used to them without noticing. and unfortunately, contrary to > muscle pain and cuts, once the ears start to go they typically stay > gone. some exceptions occur of course, my tinnitus is far less > obtrusive than it was in the past, and some tinnitus sufferers manage > to escape it entirely (after years of care). > > >>let me go now and play the other half of that "Music to Listen to >>Mozart By" CD I was not really listening to while I was having a >>cell phone conversation in my car about the playstation game I was >>playing (between e-mails on my blackberry) while I was driving on my >>way the Apple store to have them fix my iPod before I suffer from >>another attack of overstimulus deprivation. > > sorry what were you saying? i was 3-way skyping while you were talking. > > actually i had something like that happen once for real: my aunt was > driving, talking to me, her son in the back and someone on the phone > at the same time, while pissing with the radio... she was surprised > to find out later her kid had ADD. > > -- > > shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
