So, consequently, when I listen to music, I get nothing done, and Ilisten to music A LOT. When I watch TV, read, or amuse myself with frivolties, I usually am consciously aware that I am distracting myself from reality, but with music am I somehow subconsciously validating it because it has the ability to make one transcend reality without realizing it? << This is the way I look at it: Your body needs food and water to survive, but your mind and your heart need stimulation, too. I think too many people worry about the "reality" of being productive, keeping the capitalist machine going, too much, and actually don't pay ENOUGH attention to art (music, films, books etc). The question is; what are one's
Hello puppies; Justin W. asked: priorities? Is ART the distraction, or is mundane, mediocre "reality" what really distracts us from attempting true passion in life? And even if art IS the distraction, don't we need one from the oppressive boredom of our workaday routines? I quite agree. We do need something besides the static and unliving (computers, frighteningly rhythmical machines. Art is living. people make it so. Meanwhile, machine, behaving like a machine, is like trying to create artificial life. Office work is like trying to make machines out of people: creating static rhythms in our life. Which comes across as fake, fake, fake, subconsciously, and creating stress in our lives. Life is chaos, not static. Music is art made out of time, having no physical, solid counterpart, it is not made up of space in the empirical sense. I think that is the reason why music "subconsciously validates reality". It is innocuous, it is subtle. In some mystic traditions, sound and vibration is actually the basis of all the material of this world, (cf. Sufism, and field theory.)It is the essence of our reality. I'm off like a bee's butt: Cynthia _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+