Music Is Everything

What would be the forms of culture that we would say to be necessary or most inclined To foster in the individual that blowing of the flame? I think the most accessible form for most people is music And music to me is the most representational form of art Because I think that the world is made out of patterns And we perceive some patterns as objects but fundamentally It's patterns and what you want is all the patterns of the world To interact harmoniously in something Where every element is related intelligibly to every other element And I think that when your life is in harmony that you can feel that When you're dancing to beautiful music you're acting that out The music is the music of the spheres and you're participating In the patterning of your being in accordance with that structure And that gives you an intimation of transcendence Music is everything It's not criticisable, that's the thing that's so lovely about it Is even as our society has become more cynical and more self-destructive And more deconstructionist, the power of music has in fact grown Because it speaks to that eternal harmony and the reality of that eternal harmony In a way that that mere intellect cannot deny And I mean I was always amused I went to this show, the Ramones, a punk band from New York It was the loudest concert I'd ever heard by by a good factor of ten My ears rang for like three days afterward There were all these like nihilistic punk rockers all crammed Into this theatre and blow me there was a mosh pit It was like ants on a frying pan and they were just smashing into each other And throwing people around up above them And it was quite rough and they were all having this beautifully transcendent musical experience Which belied all of their nihilism and they absolutely thrived on it It was like, and even the lyrics were harsh and nihilist but it didn't matter Because the music in its rough form was something that united them in this sense of this Like patterned beauty and brought them together And so exposure to music, people die without music, it's like Music is everything --- Music Is Everything - Akira the Don and Jordan Peterson