Is it ever possible for someone to de- or re-prioritize music?

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By which I mean most people seem to see music as a peripheral thing to their life (to varying degrees) -- good for entertainment, relaxation, motivation, and even pure pleasure, but an accessory of sorts. Then there's the minority of people who at some point become fixated on music, for whom other things are just a periphery to music, in a sense. Do people like that (us) ever change their priorities? Can they ever be reprogrammed to see music as peripheral rather than central?

― *Jazz Douchebag* Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 10 December 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Probably. You can probably also desensitize people to the wonders of sunsets and beer and furtive late-summer kisses in the parking lot of the Firemen's Carnival, but why on earth would you want to?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 December 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

If reprogramming = disillusionment, via lowered expectations.

Then possibly yes. IMO much of the mass-media in England actively tries to make people expect, and demand, less of music for whatever reason. Hence so much of it seeming such an accessory and having little lasting power outside of it's clique demographic.

It can be 'central' but in a very empty way. It's music that gets listened & danced to but it hardly ever seeks to illustrate wider possibilites or seek to shock us and reconnect us with new culture/ideas/life lived in a more commited and revolutionary way outside(r) of the usual and expected.

― Too late to hibernate (fandango), Saturday, 10 December 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

I still have this crazy idea of music that 'matters' somehow being vital for culture. I think that, is my personal, slightly insane fixation which getting older doesn't seem to be helping shake off.

― Too late to hibernate (fandango), Saturday, 10 December 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

I knew this would be a Hurting thread

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Saturday, 10 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

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