Post postmodern
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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