Music Pills
Ours is a society that couldn't live without music. We love radios, loud bands, albums, records, everything. Our movies have to always have a sound track of music.
(This has resulted in many ruined films, places where silence would have been golden. It happened I saw the movie Jesus Christ Superstar through the opening scenes once when the sound track wasn't on—then a few minutes after when it was. That it was better silent is without question—a more complete experience.)
Our t.v. shows must have music—even the Olympics, as all sports nowadays—is damned with music. The thing is, music is fed into us to create our moods and emotions, rather than us making music—singing—because of them. The whole process is become reversed. Again and again I get fed music which destroys and disharmonizes my mood, and I don't like it.
We have become a people that uses music as therapy for our strains and troubles. We seem to have such a psychological need for it: as if it keeps us sane. It makes our emotions for us, as if we were no longer capable of making them ourselves. As if songs were little pills to bring us up or take us down.
