Music Is Everything - Akira the Don, Jordan Peterson

And we perceive some patterns as objects but fundamentally it’s patterns and

what you want is all the patterns of the world to interact harmoniously in

something where every element is related intelligibly to every other element

And I think that when your life is in harmony that you can feel that

When you’re dancing to beautiful music you’re acting that out

The music is the music of the spheres and you’re participating in the

patterning of your being in accordance with that structure and that gives you

an intimation of transcendence

Music is everything

Music is everything

Music is everything

Music is everything

It’s not criticisable

That’s the thing that’s so lovely about it

Is even as our society has become more cynical and more self-destructive and

more deconstructionist

The power of music has in fact grown because it speaks to that eternal harmony

and the reality of that eternal harmony in a way that that mere intellect

cannot deny

And I mean I was always amused

I went to this show

The Ramones

A punk band from New York

It was the loudest concert I’d ever heard by by a good factor of ten

My ears rang for like three days afterward

There were all these like nihilistic punk rockers all crammed into this theatre

And below me there was a mosh pit

It was like ants on a frying pan

And they were just smashing into each other and throwing people around up above

them

And it was quite rough and they were all having this beautifully transcendent

musical experience

Which belied all of their nihilism and they absolutely thrived on it

It was like, and even the lyrics were harsh and nihilist

But it didn’t matter because the music in its rough form was something that

united them in this sense of this like

Patterned beauty and brought them together

And so exposure to music, people die without music

It’s like

Music is everything

Music is everything

Music is everything

Music is everything