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I wish someone would. I've had a feeling that the way I consume music is probably a net negative for me, and I'd love to hear someone smarter than me explore t

I wish someone would. I've had a feeling that the way I consume music is probably a net negative for me, and I'd love to hear someone smarter than me explore that idea. If passive media consumption is bad for the soul, my soul is probably in pretty rough shape, so I'd love to hear this complete argument so I can figure out whether or not this idea has merit.

blindmute 5y ago
You'd like to passively consume someone's ideas about passive consumption? It's a matter of the soul, not that it makes you dumber or any objective worsening. No one is qualified to talk about it; everyone is just opining. Only you can decide for yourself whether a life of passive consumption is meaningful to you. Perhaps your instinctive desire to consume someone's ideas betrays the truth of the matter already? I think a healthy soul would look to itself and its own intrinsic virtue for guidance first, before anyone external.
- TameAntelope 5y ago
  I don't trust my own mind on its own, nor do I trust people who trust their own minds, on their own. It strikes me as the absolute height of arrogance, for anyone to believe they can bring a concept through to full maturity entirely alone.
  - blindmute 5y ago
    Anyone who you'd be reading has engendered their own ideas. Of course all great minds are inspired by other great minds, but this kind of inspiration is not really what you said to begin with. There is a stark difference between creating an idea indirectly inspired by great works, and just wanting to read someone's idea. Aristotle was inspired by Plato, but he did not defer thought to him, or wait to write Metaphysics until he had read someone "smarter" write about it.
    - TameAntelope 5y ago
      What exactly are you trying to say?
      - blindmute 5y ago
        In brief, I'd recommend thinking for yourself about these sorts of things.
        TameAntelope 5y ago
        What confuses me is why you think what I wrote excludes such behavior.

blindmute 5y ago

You'd like to passively consume someone's ideas about passive consumption? It's a matter of the soul, not that it makes you dumber or any objective worsening. No one is qualified to talk about it; everyone is just opining. Only you can decide for yourself whether a life of passive consumption is meaningful to you. Perhaps your instinctive desire to consume someone's ideas betrays the truth of the matter already? I think a healthy soul would look to itself and its own intrinsic virtue for guidance first, before anyone external.

TameAntelope 5y ago
I don't trust my own mind on its own, nor do I trust people who trust their own minds, on their own. It strikes me as the absolute height of arrogance, for anyone to believe they can bring a concept through to full maturity entirely alone.
- blindmute 5y ago
  Anyone who you'd be reading has engendered their own ideas. Of course all great minds are inspired by other great minds, but this kind of inspiration is not really what you said to begin with. There is a stark difference between creating an idea indirectly inspired by great works, and just wanting to read someone's idea. Aristotle was inspired by Plato, but he did not defer thought to him, or wait to write Metaphysics until he had read someone "smarter" write about it.
  - TameAntelope 5y ago
    What exactly are you trying to say?
    - blindmute 5y ago
      In brief, I'd recommend thinking for yourself about these sorts of things.
      - TameAntelope 5y ago
        What confuses me is why you think what I wrote excludes such behavior.