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# This Weeks Discussion Theme: [Consoom Music](https://take.supersurvey.com/resultsQSQQDKYC8)
In this weekly we CONSOOOOOOOOOM MUSIC. When it comes to music us cynical consumers will be quick to point out the degenerate aspects of modern music and the degenerative influences it has on society. On the other hand, many consumers will also argue the artistic beauty of music modern and old and how music has a unique power to convey messages and emotion in away other forms of media can’t. The fact is music as a medium is powerful. And like most media consumed it can shape you; for better or worse. The goal of this weekly is to share good music with each other.
Discussion ideas:
* Is some music intrinsically bad for society or the spirit? Is it the commercial aspect of it that makes it “bad” or is it something else?
* Taste in music changes. Has your musical taste changed, why?
* Share your favorite types of music, genres, bands, musicians.
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Honestly in theory to me it sounds like something like mostly classical or acoustic or ambient are the only acceptable forms, in practice it seems a lot more blurry.
The steady beat of a lot of popular musics is thought to be carnal and inclines people towards base instincts, like that it can be hypnotizing and turn off the brain.
Some studies have shown classical music can help epilepsy, so I guess it can really have an affect on the brain: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/music-could-reduce-seizure-frequency-epilepsy/
The culture of a lot of these movements is also indecent. Electronica "rave" culture promotes drug use; rock music often promotes rebellion against authority. Rap can promote various criminal "thug" / "gangster" activities. The artists often also promote SJW initiatives. Lyrics can be offensive, blasphemous, immoral. Overall it just seems like a mess to avoid.
This has been a genuine puzzle to me which I am still trying to come to terms with as I am artistic and like music. I've tried to ask other questions like, what kind of music do we think God would want people to create or listen to? It seems like the answer would be religious music, so maybe that should be the top music for people to consume. Music can contain prayers or be a kind of prayer - perhaps this is the right way to make use of music, to make it in to a prayer?
There's a lot of other random issues with music in all its forms. Like it can be expensive to consoom music, concerts, and the like. It's nice for there to be a "canon" of music that people know and can sing together: nationalist themes, religious songs, educational songs (like the alphabet song) - to many random people making individualistic music can fracture a shared culture. I think it would be good to try to define or redefine a kind of "great canon" of musical works and for more people to consume them. There don't seem to be too many new classical achievements (maybe the film genre?) so people could look up old composers and their best works and listen to them.
> Share your favorite types of music
Vivaldi was a classical composer and Catholic priest, for example he composed the famouse "Four Seasons": https://yewtu.be/watch?v=g1hEszuZ4lo
Has anyone else had a similar reaction to modern music?