The music of the future

Question from the Internet:

“Before the quarantine, I thought so positively about the future. I’d dream about it all day. Now, I have only a negative bias towards the future and feel that the music industry will go downhill and that I won’t be able to stop it. How do I cope?”

Based on the second part of the question it seems you measure Humanity’s future based on the fate of the music industry? I do not want to belittle your feelings, statement but this is how your question sounds.

Personally, I did not have very good feelings about the future before the coronavirus, as the world has been in perpetual crisis for decades, the economy was going downhill, societies even families were breaking up, international powers were maneuvering towards wars.

The pandemic with its restrictions put us into a forced rehab, stopping most of the activities we took for granted, giving us a “time out” to rethink our lives and perhaps adjust.

Our previous life was unnatural. It was solely centered around excessive consumerism, where money and personal wealth was the king, everything, even people were measured according to their material possession, monetary worth.

In that world music, sport, entertainment was part of an overwhelming “circus and bread entertainment” brainwashing people into submission.

Beyond the simple personal like or dislike of that lifestyle, society more importantly a Human society that is built on reckless, excessive overconsumption, hoarding, accumulating goods, pleasures that are unnecessary, mostly harmful and people can’t afford anyway is incompatible with Nature’s strict, unbreakable laws that sustain balance and homeostasis, without which life is impossible.

Instead, the pandemic gave us a chance to rebuild Human society on Natural foundations, where we base everything on mutually responsible and mutually complementing Human interconnections, and a lifestyle that fits into the optimal parameters of healthy, modern, natural necessities and available resources.

Music is a very important part of life, it inspires us, soothes us, connects people, music is the most important communication tool without speaking, as they say, “speaking directly to one’s soul”. Thus music will always remain part of our lives. But in the future, it will be “real music”, not something generated for mass consumption, where the carefully designed external looks are more important than talent (some of the greatest artists in music history would not make it today as they did not have the “look”, today even stars of classical music have to look like supermodels in skimpy dresses…), where “artists” are more interested in the contracts, the wealth they can make than the art, the music they produce.

I see a much better, bright future after the pandemic when we relearn what it means to be “truly Human” — judged, measured through the positive, mutually responsible, mutually supportive interconnections between people, and we reach integration between each other and balance and homeostasis with Nature — while we can listen to the most beautiful, pure music that is not tainted with self-serving, destructive consumerism.