Music video + Let me know what you want
You can tell me but let’s keep it reasonable:)
“An essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world. Assuming that one estimated the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, and expressed in formulas: how absurd would such a “scientific” estimation of music be! What would one have comprehended, understood, grasped of it? Nothing, really nothing of what is “music” in it!” FWN
Upcoming: I’ve got several new essays and updated book chapters that I am working to add to this platform. While those are being prepared and reviewed, I’m open to some suggestions for a few variations on themes ranging from Nutrition to Medicine maybe even to music and architecture and society in general.
This week: I expect to further the discussion on Molnupiravir as an antiviral drug and also provide some detail about this beautiful Irish-Colombian song (below). Of course the main focus of my work is Nutrition and Medicine and healthcare but like Nietzsche said we can’t let life simply be about mathematics and biochemistry otherwise we will die of boredom and lose perspective on the vitality and grandness that life can have. Please send me your desires and ideas in a brief email this week and I’ll try to respond to each.
MUSIC VIDEO: What do you know about your food?
The focus of the beautiful song is food but also knowing the origin and cultivation of that food and the people and the land that help create it.
This week, I’ll discuss it and translate it in a review that I’ve just about finished.
A “scientific” interpretation of the world, as you understand it, might therefore still be one of the most stupid of all possible understandings of the world, meaning that it would be one of the poorest in meaning. … An essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world. Assuming that one estimated the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, and expressed in formulas: how absurd would such a “scientific” estimation of music be! What would one have comprehended, understood, grasped of it? Nothing, really nothing of what is “music” in it!
