Would this work for reading as well? Do we become desensitized when we read too much?

Would this work for reading as well? Do we become desensitized when we read too much?

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Most of us have probably listened to more music than Schubert did. Whenever he wanted to listen, he had to have someone playing for him, or else play it himself.

Most people in the past only listened at concerts or at home, when they had someone to play for them. Thoreau, when he was in his cabin, didn't listen to any music at all.

People don't see, but music has been trivialized to a great extent. I feel nothing when listening to the first movement of Beethoven's 5th because I've heard it so many times on cartoons when I was a kid that it has no effect on me anymore.

Back in Schubert's day, listening to a symphony was a serious activity which you had to go out of your house to, well-dressed, and so on.

We have to go back to those days if we want to keep the awe of music alive.

How would we mimic this for literature though? Only buy expensive hard covers and read only on the weekends in a specific, deliberate context?

>I feel nothing when listening to the first movement of Beethoven's 5th because I've heard it so many times on cartoons when I was a kid that it has no effect on me anymore.
that's because you're not at a concert hall

im sitting in my room, half dressed, and listening to schubert on shitty speakers
and i still tear up every goddamn time

>I feel nothing when listening to the first movement of Beethoven's 5th because I've heard it so many times on cartoons when I was a kid that it has no effect on me anymore.
FUCK

That's only because you're a faggot

Reminds me of that scene in Intouchables where the black lad hears a classical piece live for the first time and he recognises it as the waiting music when calling the welfare office.

Sad desu, maybe media post-scarcity is ultimately just a gradual deadening of the affects and nothing else really worthwhile.

Definitely true.

It's why Freedom is so dangerous. Long ago I advocated the idea of the government forcing people to dress a certain way, cut their hair a certain way etc. In an ideal world they wouldn't have to and people would regulate themselves, but in free market existentialism people just become jaded at a young age because their curiosity leads to mass consumption and fatigue-induced nausea. Wives would also be provided by the government.

You are all cynical losers. You're dead inside not for the fault of humanity producing unaffecting music, but because you're lost and don't know how to find what it is you want.