12-10-2019, 19:21
^You're welcome - it was posted this August.
A good point about sitting with eyes closed, but in my experience they also barely make it all the way through one song, eye candy or no, let alone an entire album. There's something else that's keeping them enslaved and I think it's to do with an actual physical 'addiction' - the combination of beat and loudness. Something going on in the neural pleasure centres, I'm sure. That said, it's not all doom and gloom - when my daughter plays her instruments, she chooses melody driven 'songs' and she has an excellent ear.
I suppose Ayn Rand features primarily due to the Rush connection, Rush being one of the featured artists in the series, so tying her in with the sentiments around prog at the time. I don't necessarily agree re the purported 'feelings of superiority and exclusion' among prog rockers and/or their fans, but I guess the reference fleshes out the politics and prog angle. I'll ask for a greater insight next time I see Fred.
A good point about sitting with eyes closed, but in my experience they also barely make it all the way through one song, eye candy or no, let alone an entire album. There's something else that's keeping them enslaved and I think it's to do with an actual physical 'addiction' - the combination of beat and loudness. Something going on in the neural pleasure centres, I'm sure. That said, it's not all doom and gloom - when my daughter plays her instruments, she chooses melody driven 'songs' and she has an excellent ear.
I suppose Ayn Rand features primarily due to the Rush connection, Rush being one of the featured artists in the series, so tying her in with the sentiments around prog at the time. I don't necessarily agree re the purported 'feelings of superiority and exclusion' among prog rockers and/or their fans, but I guess the reference fleshes out the politics and prog angle. I'll ask for a greater insight next time I see Fred.
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