july

Songs are a vehicle, much like poetry is a vehicle, to communicate complex ideas in a simple way to a lot of people at once. Songs are easy to sing (participate) but still convey the emotion; the frustration, the anger, the hope that things will get better over time, and the eventual overcoming

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Book VIII of Aristotle’s Politics —

It’s always shocks me that he ends Politics by discussing education, and that music is the center of true education. 

(He says that music — more than any art — is able to imitate states of human character. And unlike poetics, it can speak to the irrational part of soul)

playing /bracket, assisting /bracky, talking /greatbooks

Haha I’ve spent a lot of time with this fellow

Introducing pieces of his thought to others is like introducing a friend to a friend

Also can I just say:

@tldr I am continuously amazed by your depth of knowledge about Aristotle and how you have insight into many subjects on demand

The unconditionally unconscious seeping of music into the soul is unparalleled- no wonder Homeric oration tradition often accompanied songs, that’s how they would memorize- wasn’t really till Homer that it was written down because everyone could remember by song