Great comment from some salon article: //Modern atheism is a moderately intelligent person hearing elevator muzak renditions of für Elise and the Mondscheinsonate and then deciding that Beethoven wasnt very good at making music. And because that person has the intellectual wherewithal to understand that elevator muzak isnt very good, he now knows that he is better at musicology than everybody else, Beethoven included. In fact, because elevator muzak is rubbish, he decides that all of classical music is a colossal waste of time for the tasteless and feeble-minded; a person of taste and intelligence couldnt possibly dedicate himself to such drivel, and therefore, by renouncing elevator muzak, he is eo ipso smarter than anybody who likes, plays or composes classical music. He is so thunderstruck by this realisation which in an instant has elevated him above all those fools that now he feels the physical need to show up at concert halls, musicology lectures, piano lessons et al and shout at everybody there how amazingly daft they are for liking such rubbish, and how smart he is because knows that elevator muzak is bad. He is now an expert and a scholar on all things musical simply because he was smart enough to be bored in an elevator. And since no one likes being bored by bad muzak, he now joins the righteous cause to have all classical music banned. Because reason.//
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:50:48 +0000