What do we about modern pop culture? Just look at some of the absolute tripe that counts for music these days. Repetitive ADHD inducing sounds, accompanied with messages about nihilism and promiscuity. Oh and ever see the videos for these songs? Most of them are filled with almost completely naked women just gyrating and making sexual motions.
When did our collective taste in art and aesthetics become so low brow? There is nothing lower and more disgusting than that which appeals to our most basic, primal sexual urges.
We are better than that, the story of human success is the story of great men overcoming thier most primitive urges, deferring gratification in order to achieve something nobler and greater. So why now does society promote and encourage that which appeals to our most basic instincts instead of something higher?
I mean seriously, look at the cultural values that were held by various European societies over a century ago: discipline, bravery, restraint. Now what are we told to aspire to? "Openness", "tolerance" and the big one "diversity".
Where did it all go so wrong and can it even be reversed?
>Repetitive ADHD inducing sounds Can you be a bit more concrete about this.
I am trying to figure out what effect modern music like Techno and Rap has to our psyche, with it's strong connection to unmusical elements, fast-paced rhythms and repetitiveness.
Brandon Foster
Well there is the weird theory about how the mhz standard was changed after the Nazis were defeated and supposedly music affects mood negatively now with this but Im not a musician or anything and dont know enough to verify this. anyone else familiar with this concept?
Aaron Sanchez
something to do with A440 or something.
Connor Martin
I have to add: Most of Ancient and Reniassance literature also appeals to basic instincts. They are full with gratuitous violence, longing for vengeance and idiotic wars.
Just take a Shakespeare work for example: "I kill my own uncle, as a revenge, because he killed my father". Great lesson. Or "Emilia Galotti", the father literally commits a honour killing to his daughter.
Nolan Kelly
the mcdonalds of music and culture
Samuel Taylor
ADHD isn't real.
Xavier Ramirez
Aspie denialism again.
Bentley Moore
>Just look at some of the absolute tripe that counts for music these days. Repetitive ADHD inducing sounds, accompanied with messages about nihilism and promiscuity. Oh and ever see the videos for these songs? Most of them are filled with almost completely naked women just gyrating and making sexual motions. Pop music has always been degenerate.
