In the las post I was talking about the death of music as I knew it. As always that statement was hyperbolic, although it has some truth it. Nor music, nor rock has died, but maybe the traditional rock band formation has. For some 6 decades or so it was so prevalent, so ubiquitous that it seem the real way to make music, at least rock music. But time has passed and it is no longer en vogue. Now music is mainly made in computers, by a couple of artists and big teams of specialists. I think it is not coincidental that there are so many collaborations between singers, because most of the time music is just engineered, fabricated. So it makes sense to make a lot of crossovers and I guess that many times the main force behind the songs of those artists are the same teams of engineers and ghost writers. Anyway, it seems the heyday of the rock band with drummer, bass and guitar are gone. However I guess the older people in the sixties were baffled when they saw the one man backed by a orchestra being replace by the Beatles modeled rock band as the primary source of mainstream music.
But what does that has to do with anything? Well, simply put, it makes me feel uneasy. I have always been aware that time passes and we grow older. But maybe I was not really aware of how the world changes. Some things evolve, others just disappear. And that includes us. And that happen at any time. We really take many, many things for granted. The first is our own existence in the next few years, but also others' and also things that we forget how important they are, such as freedom, security, health, family. Anything can go away at any time. Even things that we somehow thought that would always be there, even after we died.
I know that is some quite large leap of logic, from "the music changes" to "everything we know, need and love can disappear before our eyes (including us)" but, well, that is just me, with my obsession to think on the worst case scenario but then ignoring that altogether and never doing anything. So, for a change, what are you going to do about it?
Well, probably nothing, besides writing about it to free my mind from it and to fill some self-imposed quota. But lately I have been listening to some Philosophy podcast (Philosophize this!) and it seems that many philosophers had theories about what should humans do to become the best version of themselves. I just heard about three philosophers and all three had something to say in that respect. Maybe its just the podcaster, but it made me think that trying to become the best version of yourself is important, very important, something to really think about and struggle to pursue.
I know myself, the least persevering person I know, but maybe, just maybe, I can muster the will to try to become a better version of myself during the limited time I have. And what is that better version? I guess it depends on who you ask. Probably I could read a little bit more about it, but many of the characteristics are surely common and evident. I will probably do nothing, but at least this post will be here, and maybe it will inspire someone, maybe even my future self, to do something for once.
Regards.
