Comments by "André de Lacerda Santos" (@andredelacerdasantos4439) on "Academy of Ideas"
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@JorshusPrime Beethoven's Eroica symphony is in fact left leaning because it further supported the ideas of the French Revolution. Beethoven even destroyed the dedication to Napoleon from the score after he learned he crowned himself emperor under the influence of Talleyrand, meaning he supported only the people's rights, and not a tyrant. Beethoven himself always sided with the left all his life, and he was indeed a very polical man. He even created his 9th symphony with a coral and lyrics, because people kept telling him how easy it was to publish his music because it didn't contain any words to topple tyrants. If you read the poem he used in the symphony, that was written by Schiller, you will see it also contains a message of brotherhood among humanity and vouching for the union of the people, something you will rarely find in a work of art that is right leaned. If you go to a concert that plays a piece composed by him, you will see that the culture is of the same nature of the garbage music you refer to, with the greatest difference being that in a classical music concert, the mass sees itself as highly sophisticated, even if they are still cattle. In general, the classical music culture does not support the creativity of the youth either, since the practice of improvisation is completely absent in almost all classically trained musicians, even though it was universally practiced and thaught until the ninteenth century.
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What you said could easely be applied to music that is supposed to be "good", like say, classical music, where people go to a concert to hear Beethoven's radical, left leaning Eroica Symphony, all the while wearing the most fancy and expansive clothes, sitting for an hour straight without making a sound, without even clapping between each movement, and being ostracized if they even attempt to cough. This example may seem irrelevant because classical music isn't so "popular", but to the people who have a subscription to their local philarmonic and go to concerts every month, it is popular and they use that activity to ensure their place on the crowd and to shun anyone who deviates from the behavioral norm, even if those strict norms were not in place when the pieces they are listening to were first performed. The argument here is that whether the music is good or not does not matter, the problem is that a rulling class pushes a political agenda onto the people, ruining the original message of the piece.
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Joy! A spark of fire from heaven,
Daughter from Elysium,
Drunk with fire we dare to enter,
Holy One, inside your shrine.
Your magic power binds together,
What we by custom wrench apart,
All men will emerge as brothers,
Where you rest your gentle wings.
If you've mastered that great challenge:
Giving friendship to a friend,
If you've earned a steadfast woman,
Celebrate your joy with us!
Join if in the whole wide world there's
Just one soul to call your own!
He who's failed must steal away,
shedding tears as he departs.
All creation drinks with pleasure,
Drinks at Mother Nature's breast;
All the just, and all the evil,
Follow down her rosy path.
Kisses she bestowed, and grape wine,
Friendship true, proved e'en in death;
Every worm knows nature's pleasure,
Every cherub meets his God.
Gladly, like the planets flying
True to heaven's mighty plan,
Brothers, run your course now,
Happy as a knight in victory.
Be embracéd, all you millions,
Share this kiss with all the world!
Way above the stars, brothers,
There must live a loving father.
Do you kneel down low, you millions?
Do you see your maker, world?
Search for Him above the stars,
Above the stars he must be living!
Schiller's Ode To Joy, 1808
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