Actively and passively bad
An essay by Michael Kurek tries to answer the statue-pullers by listing several "good" composers and inventors who did "bad" things in life. Kurek includes Schoenberg in the list.

Schoenberg had triskaidekaphobia, a virulent fear of the number thirteen, and he inconvenienced a lot of people who lived or worked somewhere with a thirteen on it.

Well, that's a trivial kind of badness. Artistic temperament. People with extreme talents often have extreme tastes as well. Outlier genes are expressed broadly.

I had the impression that Schoenberg and Stockhausen and other avant gardes intended their MUSIC ITSELF to be bad in the active sense. The MUSIC ITSELF was certainly bad in the passive sense. When you listen to Schoenberg or Stockhausen your brain dissolves.

Looking up Schoenberg, I found that his CRIMINAL PURPOSE was quite explicit.

Schoenberg drew comparisons between Germany's assault on France and his assault on decadent bourgeois artistic values. In August 1914, while denouncing the music of Bizet, Stravinsky, and Ravel, he wrote: "Now comes the reckoning! Now we will throw these mediocre kitschmongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God."

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? We should understand that Hitler was representing GERMANS, not a new and unprecedented Nazi ideology. Our habit of attributing everything to ideology leads us into fatal errors in both directions. We kill millions of people to change their ideology, which always has the opposite effect; and we handle criminals stupidly because we think we can "reform" criminals by changing their beliefs.

I won't argue with Kurek's main point at all. Music and art should be consumed and appreciated on the merits of the product itself, not the personality and actions of the composer. But Schoenberg and Stockhausen cross the line by infusing the PRODUCT ITSELF with both ugliness and criminal PURPOSE.

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. Grotesque holocaustal psychopaths like Schoenberg and Inslee and Newsom only appreciate and use the thorns.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.

Continued here.

Labels: Grand Blueprint, Jail mode

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