Some musicians are
now so squeezed into the world’s mold that they do not seem to realize that the
whole belief-system that music is amoral is the result of autonomous music
philosophy. It is no wonder that you can
trust a humanist to conclude that all music endeavors begins and ends with man.
The philosophical bias of a humanist
will always be that all meaning in life (if there is meaning in life) will be
the result of self-actualization and the act of a person’s free will.
This musical mind
believes wholeheartedly that in the beginning was “ameba” or worse yet in the
beginning was “nothing”. This musician
believes within himself that man came from nowhere and is ultimately going
nowhere. It is not hard for him to believe
that man exists in a purposeless universe and that he is “caught in the wheel
of time”. This musician also believes
that music came from nowhere and is ultimately going nowhere.
To this humanistic
musician the only thing that really matters is “me”. This type of thinker concludes that music is
amoral since man is God and God is man therefore God is in man because man
created God. So, man is God of his
music. Any music that he composes or
performs is God’s music i.e. all man’s music is created in God’s image since God
is created in man’s image. Any music
that pleases man will also please God and conversely no music that displeases
man is pleasing to God. So, if you can
wade through all the previous mumbo-jumbo, you will be able to understand why a
synthesis thinking religious humanist, who is autonomous, believes that all
musical roads lead to heaven – why there is no profundity in music – why all
music is appropriate for public worship and ultimately why music is all a
matter of taste.
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