Jazz, Plato, and Biology

Plato was right about the seductive aspects of art, but philosophy, including Plato's philosophy, is also seductive. Both art and philosophy can stir the senses and emotions and inflame man's character and culture.

For example, I have enjoyed jazz music even though the jazz scene has been permeated with drugs, illicit sex, and the opposite of the traditional morality I uphold. "Kind of Blue" by Miles, Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, etc, may be the best jazz recording ever made.  But jazz has also been the will-to-power of African-Americans, many who, like Miles Davis, hated whites.

Jazz also eventually became the will-to-power-of African-Americans over whites. And we saw that whites who liked jazz music also tended to affirm the will to power of blacks over whites, much like postmodernism was teaching whites to hate whites in our colleges. This was a decadent seduction.

I came to understand that it is completely natural for art and culture to be "used" to advance a people or a particular ethnic group since all social behavior has a biological and genetic origin.  And about the same time I came to understand the negative seductive nature of jazz.  Rap is now doing much the same thing to young whites who seem to be especially prone to such seduction.

I think Plato was wrong in placing spiritual abstract forms above material life and material art and culture. I believe that life evolves to Godhood only in the material and supermaterial world and it is Plato's Forms that are unreal.

As to jazz, I still listen to it, along with European classical music, and I see the seductive nature of both.  But it is the idealists and abstractors who are the real negative seducers.