08-19-2022, 12:34 PM
One thing is certain: people are generally going to live much differently after the Crisis of 2020 than before, but I can expect music to be part of their lives. The technology on which they enjoy it will differ more than will the music to which they listen due to economic realities. Single-family houses allow people to enjoy loud pieces of music without headphones, which has its sonic virtues. Tiny apartments do not.
Whether the landlord becomes even more the King of the American Economy as his share of national income rises and thus consolidates his economic and political power or has his powers reduced through political choices may decide how people enjoy music.
Whether the landlord becomes even more the King of the American Economy as his share of national income rises and thus consolidates his economic and political power or has his powers reduced through political choices may decide how people enjoy music.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.