Where would you be without....

Originally Posted by Sane Brain

I don't particularly think this question is ... well defined.

Think about it. What do you define as music? If you consider regular music to be, like, the artists that play on your MP3 player, or what you hear going to work everyday, where does it stop from there?

What I mean is, if that didn't work, or exist, then wouldn't you ultimately try to make music yourself? Anyone can sing, snap their fingers, get into a swing. How could you prevent someone from doing or actually hearing that? The only possible way life could exist without music is if everybody was deaf.

If everybody was deaf...

I don't even want to think about that. Right now I think that's inconceivable. We rely so much on our hearing that if it was just to all of a sudden stop one day sans a time limit, life would go into chaos. It might mean the end of civilization as we know it.

So, to answer your question, if there was no music, there would be no civilization. Ah, how I love to use Aristotle's Method to get my point across.

But yet, it's so convoluted and unnecessary.

Of course there'd be civilization. It wouldn't be a very creative or very fun one, but it's not like civilization hinges on music (or even creativity!) alone.

Music is an upper for me. But that's about it. I'm a philistine, I guess. I mean, I value creativity and all, but music is just something that fucks with my mood or causes me to feel a certain way. It's helpful when I have a bad day and I can listen to some music to make me feel better, but that's as far as it goes with me, I guess.

It's not like this life changing thing for me. Just a useful tool.

Jam it back in, in the dark.