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27-02-2020, 11:53 AM #341 luka luka is online now
I've mentioned this before but no one was biting. How much do you think the uptake of ambient is to do with the ideal of ego renunciation?
recoiling from overt aggression, lust, power dynamics and dominance, status games etc etc
I keep meaning to do a thread on the ego, slanted towards music.
http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127103/Nietzsche_thus_spake_zarathustra/III_54.html
Ending up in a position in which a lot of music is experienced as a contaminant, pollutant, germ, disease.
Trying to hold on to a hard won position of spiritual and ethical purity and needing to keep at bay all evil influence which threatens this rocky perch. I don't mean that in a mocking way. I can relate to it. I know the impulse. I'm not sure it's bad, although it's treacherous ground.
It's why I prefer not to drink.
I would class ambient music alongside clean eating in this respect. I think it's the exact same impulse
Music that assiduously avoids exciting the passions. Like not eating garlic and onion.