Music presents a Balance between Happiness and Stress

I have a theory that people are designed to experience a certain balance of misery and happiness in life; and their "art" is used to provide that balance. Most traditional arts of people in desperate grinding poverty are "bright and happy." Modern art in the West seems largely bitter, angry, and depressing. It is as if our life is so effortlessly comfortable that we bring the "necessary" anger and unhappiness into our lives with art and music. In the "Third World" life is naturally difficult and stressful, so the music [as a counter balance] is happy and joyful.



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William Schaeffer