Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Actively and passively bad, continued
Extending the fruit to music analogy.
From previous:
Analogy in nature: We consume and appreciate the separable products of plants without concern for the "evil" actions of the plant itself. We appreciate the colors and aroma of a rose without worrying about the thorns. We consume and appreciate apples and beans without worrying about the caterpillars that were poisoned by the plant's natural defenses.
The plant INTENDS the products to be consumed. That's why it infuses them with beauty.
We don't snap off the thorns and appreciate them for their ugly pain and toxin. Or at least ordinary humans don't do that. Psychopaths like Schoenberg only appreciate and use the thorns.
Nature, of course, is more complicated and efficient. Often the poison serves two purposes. Arsenic in apples and nicotine in tomatoes are dual-purpose poisons. They kill and repel bugs, AND they contribute to the beauty and consumability of the fruit. Arsenic is an alternate nutrient for animals, and some of us learn to tolerate and require it. Nicotine adds allure to the flavor, improves our mood, and habituates us to the tomato.
In both cases the 'poison' makes us want more of the fruit, and in both cases more is good.
The fruits of Stockhausen and Schoenberg have no alluring qualities at all, which is fortunate. The people who "like" them are propagandists and ideologues who like the ideology as modulation, not the product as carrier wave.
Nature is strictly commercial. Roses and apples and tomatoes are sold to animals through the advertising of beauty, and habituated in animals through arsenic and nicotine. In return the plant gets pollination and seed-spreading services. Bees spread the pollen. Birds eat the fruit and poop the seeds. Humans plant the trees and vines in massive numbers to get more of the fruits. Pay for value.
The best art is also strictly commercial. All good music, even religious music, was produced for money. Bach had contracts with cathedrals, and Mozart had contracts with aristocrats who wanted entertainment. Pay for value.
Schoenberg and Stockhausen were academics, producing music as evil propaganda, not as desirable and nutritious fruits. They were 'paid' through their psychopathic zombie enjoyment of dissolving brains and enslaving the Untermensch.
LIFE IS PURPOSE.
¶ 7:28 AM 
