A few personal thoughts on music and culture

Bach was an almost other-worldly musical pattern-maker, he would have made Pythagoras cry. Did Handel ever write an ugly line of music? Haydn generally valued quantity over quality. Mozart spiritualized and improved conservative forms, which is what art should do, but no one would give him a paying job. Beethoven wrote beautiful and powerful melodies and harmonies but too often preferred only driving rhythms with mediocre melodies and harmonies. Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, like most Russian composers before the atonal swamp, could break your heart. Chopin's short compositions were honed until they were dazzling unsurpassed gems. Wagner's idea of creating a total national art, updating the ancient Greeks, was as important as his operas. Schoenberg's atonal “music” was an abomination on Western music, as has been most musical high art since then.

In pop music, modernized folk music and country music alone hold out against the total Africanization of all pop music, heavily promoted by the malevolent Big Media, although we do now hear rap-influenced country songs---but without the gross nursery rhyme obscenities of rap and hip hop.

The hard reality is, as the people change the culture changes. Western people now see and hear only loud and angry music and art created by loud and angry people who usually do not share their same genetic or cultural traits. Conserving Western music and culture means conserving Western people, and Western people seem too depressed to breed or maintain their cultures anymore, as we see reported almost daily, and gleefully, in the demographic statistics of the Big Corrupt Media.

The strength of the ancient Greeks was in their creation of natural ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which they developed without Darwin or knowledge of the evolutionary science of sociobiology. It was their natural ethnostates and the Indo-European Greek traits that led the way to the development of high Greek culture and art. But newer versions of ethnostates will have to do away with Greek slavery, and apply ethnostates to all distinct ethnic groups.

Wagner was right in thinking that high art, religion, philosophy, politics, etc., should agree on the deepest truths; all the fields are, or should be, transmutable or exchangeable, it's even a way to check the truth of truths.

I think serious or high art has always been an affirmation of the things that we have held sacred, which included religion, nature, and human beauty, and low art also affirmed the sacred but with less sophistication, which is okay. We have to get back to high and low art defined as the affirmation of the scared. But the sacred now needs to affirm the material evolution to supermaterial Godhood.