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PETER
HÜBNER THE BENEFITS AND HARM OF MUSIC IN SOCIETY |
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| “The
danger of the human race are not the political systems, weapons, nuclear power plants or chemical plants – these are all almost harmless in comparison with an unrecognised, unimpeded international establishment of blind destructive frenzy in the individual human being.” |
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| Peter Hübner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In
spite of serious and honourable efforts to secure the well-being
of our citizens, our society is confronted in all areas of life
with an inexorably growing wave of destruction of natural orders,
and in spite of more and more energy spent, we are only facing
greater problems: |
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| - | an increasingly growing loss of learning ability, as well as | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | increasing hyperactivity among children, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | a growing decline in natural human values in the consciousness of the individual citizens, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | an increasingly vehement growth of individual and social disharmony, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | an inexorably growing flood of crime, violence and destructive frenzy ending in blind self-destruction due to drugs etc., and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | a more and more drastic decline in natural health. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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With the increase of all these and numerous other problems despite
the most intensive efforts to try and decrease them or at least
halt them, the individual person involved must finally come to
the conclusion that with all his honest efforts he is similar to
Don Quichotte fighting against windmills. At the same time it was revealed that our complex rhythmical biological
system is totally helpless and unprotected against the rhythmical
influence of music. Music, which does not orientate itself towards the natural harmony laws of music – and which is therefore unnatural in its character –, educates the person creating music, the interpreter and the listener in the “art” of destruction: directs his entire thinking structurally towards the general destruction of everything natural: almost brings him up in this manner – without him being able to resist. It is not a coincidence that all social trends, not directed towards a natural development, connect with a kind of music, which disrespects the natural order of the harmony laws of nature – and here the question remains open as to what is the originator of whom: whether music that primarily disrespects the musical natural laws, also lays the foundation-stone for all kinds of trends in society, which go against a natural evolution: which spurs people on to intolerance, violence and revolutions, and inspires them towards open and hidden dictatorships, as well as beyond that to a total and inconsiderate destruction of our environment, the outer area of life. It may therefore be that the present-day international ecological crisis has its causes in music with very serious consequences, rather than in any other area of social life. Studies prove that music especially can shape the structure of
human thinking and emotions like nothing else, and that music therefore
mainly determines the basic attitude of human thinking towards
evolution. But the present musicological and medical studies and the discoveries made accordingly, show clearly that the musician and not least the music marketing people burden themselves with a much greater responsibility in social everyday life than the mentioned scientists do: because the musician influences the people direct with his “art” of feeling and thinking. In his thinking, the listener is structurally totally helplessly at the mercy of the musical influence. This realisation should have great consequences. If it has already been recognised and scientifically verified that, ahead of all disciplines, nature has enabled music to influence and manipulate human feeling and thinking to an uncontrollable extent for the individual listener – that with music you can orientate human thinking against nature as well as get it in the right mood for a natural evolution, then the aspect of musical benefits and harm in society should indeed be given absolute priority. For, whether for instance some scientific achievements are employed for the benefit or harm of human society, is not decided in the mind of scientific research scientists and discoverers, but within the thinking of the user. The researcher, however, has no substantial influence whatsoever on the user’s thinking, and therefore on the use of his developments – the education of the user in the direction of a person with tendencies towards pure destruction, or in the direction of a person who in his thinking and actions follows the example of the harmony laws of nature, happens with the utmost discreet power and mainly by means of music. At the same time, it is important to differentiate in music clearly
between the pure music structure and all other contents loaded
with meaning, which are added to music with texts that are either
sung or spoken – be they of a political, religious or different
nature. |
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With kind permission of the HESSISCHE LANDBOTE © 1998- WORLD MUSIC FORUM |
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