Bach and the Bullies
All day long I listen to music, whether at my studio or at home. After years of folk wisdom (thank you Mary, Peter, and Paul) I found myself switching recently to Johann Sebastian Bach.
There is something reassuring about Bach. He has taken the complex language of music and made it understandable and sane. Someone is in control. Someone has tamed the beast of chaos and made it masterful and rational.
We seem to be living in a jungle of incursions. Old standards of inviolability have been erased. Everything is negotiable, including identities and lives. Plants, animals intersect. National borders disappear. Cultural boundaries fuse with political realities. "Gimme, Gotcha" (1) has become an international rallying cry.
What's a bot and what's a me? That question no longer seems relevant: kaching is king.
We have survived the coming of the atomic bomb, the AIDS crisis, the World Trade Center debacle, the covid pandemic. Humanity swirls through a never-ending soap opera, with new episodes constantly on the horizon. Global leaders too often see the world as their disposable toybox.
I'll take Bach over bullies any day.
(1) "Gimme Gotcha"
c. Corinne Whitaker 2025 and always
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