Vivaldi → Bach → Mozart → Beethoven → Wagner → Stravinsky → Berg → screw it, let’s invent rock and roll and start over
I’m afraid your model of music history is no better than your model of Eliezer’s mind.
I don’t want to get into the numerous problems with this right now, other than to say that it is supremely annoying when people speak about popular music (such as rock and roll) as if it were the “successor” of art of music of the past. The successor to the art music of the past is the art music of the present. (That means all those composers you haven’t heard of.) Rock and roll is in an entirely separate category.
As regards your list of “masochistic” phenomena, I don’t see what the common thread is. You listed “fiction” in general without naming any authors, but when it came to music you singled out Berg and Webern. What’s so special about these two composers? I’m guessing you don’t like Berg, since you call anyone who does “jaded”. (How much Berg do you even know?) But what’s the connection between listening to composers of the Second Viennese School and listening to (whatever kind of) music so loudly that it hurts? And eating spicy food?
If these are all just things you don’t like and others do, what makes you think that masochism is involved?
I’m afraid your model of music history is no better than your model of Eliezer’s mind.
I don’t want to get into the numerous problems with this right now, other than to say that it is supremely annoying when people speak about popular music (such as rock and roll) as if it were the “successor” of art of music of the past. The successor to the art music of the past is the art music of the present. (That means all those composers you haven’t heard of.) Rock and roll is in an entirely separate category.
As regards your list of “masochistic” phenomena, I don’t see what the common thread is. You listed “fiction” in general without naming any authors, but when it came to music you singled out Berg and Webern. What’s so special about these two composers? I’m guessing you don’t like Berg, since you call anyone who does “jaded”. (How much Berg do you even know?) But what’s the connection between listening to composers of the Second Viennese School and listening to (whatever kind of) music so loudly that it hurts? And eating spicy food?
If these are all just things you don’t like and others do, what makes you think that masochism is involved?