Music as a whole clearly decided to go in a direction deliberately away from what any "normal" person would like. They dress it up in plenty of other words, but

Music as a whole clearly decided to go in a direction deliberately away from what any "normal" person would like. They dress it up in plenty of other words, but it's clear by the way nothing will attract their disdain like anything that a normal person might like that this is certainly a core component of where academic music decided to go. I know this from personal experience. They don't even particularly hide it if it's not the direct topic of conversation, it is only denied when directly challenged, a sort of psychological motte & bailey ploy. That's fine. That's all their right, even the last bit. I'm hardly in a position to insist that disliking, or at the very least distrusting, something when the only thing I know about it is that it is popular is invalid myself. We take very different approaches to that, but I can't deny what I do is close enough that it would be hypocritical to criticize too much. But it is pretty stupid to write handwringing articles about "Why don't they like us?" You collectively wrote music that blares in every tone that you don't want normies to like you. You chased them away for decades. You collectively berated and mocked them in both words and music. What did you collectively expect? I suppose those who joined in the process late and learned the methods of disdain without the reason underlying them might be confused, but I can promise those people that there is no scenario where the common person suddenly acquires a taste for music that basically musically reads as "screw the common person and everything they stand for", in addition to whatever else it may be saying. If you want the normies to like you, you are going to have to at least inch closer to them first. Maybe the normies could use some mind-expansion, but right now you are so far away from where the normies are that you are barely on the same planet. You don't want to. You're not going to. That's fine. All I'm really asking for is for you to stop being surprised about the results. When you tell people to fuck off, they do.