In an imaginary but psychologically emotion-laden domain, the listener who remembers a hit song will turn into the song’s ideal subject, into the person for whom the song ideally speaks. At the same time, as one of many who identify with that fictitious subject, that musical I, he will feel his isolation ease as he [...]
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i want to rock and roll all night…
Posted in akhira zaman, tagged control, democracy, mass, mind, music, party, plato, psychology, rave, rock, roll, theory on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
you can catch me at the club…
Posted in akhira zaman, tagged atheism, control, education, huxley, madness, mass, mind, music, philosophy, plato, psychology, religion on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If exposed long enough to the tomtoms and the singing, every one of our philosophers would end by capering and howling with savages. Assemble a mob of men and women, treat them to amplified band music, bright lights, and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. [...]
(mis)education
Posted in akhira zaman, tagged bertrand, cinema, control, education, films, internet, mass, mind, movies, music, psychology, russell, sociology, theory, videos on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Physiology and psychology afford fields for scientific technique which still await development. Two great men, Pavlov and Freud, have laid the foundation. I do not accept the view that they are in any essential conflict, but what structure will be built on their foundations is still in doubt. I think the subject which will be [...]
