>>5012662

This.

Blindness to the importance of rituals makes us all the more susceptible to manipulation.

And music being one of the most direct, powerful pre-language forces there are, it is consistently underestimated.

It has the power to save and uplift, but also to confuse and mislead… add to that the adolescent need to belong, and you get things like decade after decade of shitty, artificial, crime-promoting thug hip-hop (member when styles evolved and changed in a matter of months? Wonder why we’re still stuck with that crap?)

>>5012972

Yup.

Thing is, we never really stop having rituals, we just don’t do it knowingly if we aren’t aware of their power(s) and effects on us…

Organized religion might have its flaws, but just throwing it all out with no replacement has left so many so, so vulnerable