I had the Superbowl on last night. I was quickly bored (Denver didn't turn up) and muted the broadcast whilst doing some work. Looking up it was half-time. Without the 'music' the Black-eyed Peas and others strutting about on stage looked utterly ludicrous, but still better than with sound! I can get into, say, Beethoven's 9th and a wide range of live performances. I would pay to have the vast majority of so-called music turned-off. I cannot remotely understand why anyone would inflict it on me. Nietzsche, an idiot if ever there was one, was swooned by military processions and bands. Some people are very easily swooned, so selfish they can't understand annoying other people is wrong and unaware reasonable silence is a social demand. Germany is very different to the UK in this respect - even if your kids are noisy there you are expected to take them out so as not to annoy your neighbours. Harder to describe the soul-touching, especially as I doubt some of the annoying prats have one! If you can do pelvic thrusts to it I reckon it ain't music and has no soul.
On Monday, 27 January 2014 07:31:18 UTC, andrew vecsey wrote: > > Why does music captivate our soul as powerfully as it does? Why is it that > the same music which captivates the soul of a some listeners is found to be > nothing more than annoying noise to other listeners? > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
