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OldBaldy1701E

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19. "It's complete - and completely unethical - pretense. Pure fraud."

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #13)

Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:33 AM

17 hrs ago

And, you just described most of the modern society we live in!

LOL.

Yes, I agree. However, music is in the eye of the beholder. It is the popularity-driven, money making desire that created the criteria that we keep wanting to use to describe music and its effect.

We got away from what it means for us and made it a 'product'. Of course, we have done that with pretty much everything in this country, so I guess we have to either live in it, or leave it.

Of course, we could change it, but that seems to be a very impossible task to some people, so we don't talk about it.

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