tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808406058173173703.post1024735999511277498..comments2023-06-28T05:54:47.372-04:00Comments on Music 000001: 187. An Overwhelming Question -- Part 6DocGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808406058173173703.post-65580712913010435512009-08-22T23:01:53.411-04:002009-08-22T23:01:53.411-04:00I tend to agree with you, Maju, but only up to a p...I tend to agree with you, Maju, but only up to a point. Because there is a danger here of reverting to the old "Romantic" view of the unspoiled "child of nature," which is not my intention at all. If our investigations lead us to recognize a kind of Utopia in this culture, I want us to have earned that recognition through a careful, critical process of relentless investigation rather than jumping to premature, ideologically driven conclusions, based on what we might want to see. I'm still scratching my head over the question of whether their music can be regarded as "natural" or contrived, un-codified or highly codified, and the same sort of dilemma could lie at the heart of their culture generally. We still have a lot to learn about that culture -- and the degree to which our "Romantic" ideals could be a survival from it.DocGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808406058173173703.post-27280155874078660052009-08-18T16:21:18.171-04:002009-08-18T16:21:18.171-04:00Besides the abstract debate, I think that there is...Besides the abstract debate, I think that there is something within us, something we can call "instinctive" (human instinct, fundamental emotions maybe, not the rough simplification of "dog eats dog"), that somehow is telling us that "sure: that is it", that we aren't but "bushmen" who have lost their roots. <br /><br />The revisionists would be people with too strong superego who can't admit that. Those who are overcodified can't easily admit that such quite, not decodified but simply un-codified humankind can exist, much less be ancestral and "natural". On the other side the decodifying ones can't but see in such "Arcadian" reality the almost perfect reference for their longing for being just human without that artificially hyper-demanding cultural burden of normativity.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com