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I'm giving it a listen now. I'm only 10 minutes or so into it, but this is a quote (not exact, but close enough) from Jordan Peterson: "(music and cathedrals)
by wilsonnb 9y ago
I'm giving it a listen now.
I'm only 10 minutes or so into it, but this is a quote (not exact, but close enough) from Jordan Peterson:
"(music and cathedrals) are ways of trying to symbolically represent how things could be if they were put in the proper state of balance or harmony"
What does that even mean? The only concrete nugget of knowledge I can get from that is that cathedrals are designed in a relatively balanced manner. Symmetrical, I guess.
I plan to listen to the rest of this interview but that statement was a particularly good example of the hand-waavy nonsense that I was talking about so I decided to record it here so I didn't forget.
- rusk 9y agoI think Russell has him sized when he opines that he has ”some mischief about him”
- thinkingemote 9y agoI'm guessing here, but here's a go: Symbolically would mean that it represents something to do with the human condition. In the case, I would imagine, he means that the design of cathedrals and great music both tap into some kind of perfect or balanced thing in humans. Such a thing is something to aim for, or towards. Its how we cant write a recipe to how to write great (not just good, but the real stuff that makes your hair stand on end) music - and that sense of awe we feel in a cathedral. And both are man made and not a natural beauty. He has also talked about the cross formation of most churches, but I don't think that quote was about that.