Human intelligence is limited. That’s why our instinctual reactions are very important, because they point to universal truths that we may not yet be able to articulate. If it sounds wrong, it probably is wrong, and if you like it anyways it’s likely for reasons that have nothing to do with the music. Too often, we let people’s own justifications for their own tastes and preferences stand, which is fallacious because it assumes self-awareness.
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How To Listen To Music (via jakec) I can’t buy this — the “justification process,” which is to say how people USE music, not just talk about it but also dance about it, surround themselves with it, etc., is their pleasure of music. There isn’t some separate part of you that “likes music instinctively” outside of the context in which you’re hearing it, and that context becomes part of the justification. I just don’t see what we gain by assuming bad faith in what people say about their tastes. Usually it just serves to uphold the bankrupt assumptions those claiming falseness have about the music in question. (“You don’t really like it, though.”) |
