Mozart
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Mozart is a recurring music project in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 23, 2021 and May 15, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “certain pieces of high status music (cf. Mozart vs. Philip Glass)”; “Mozart to Morrissey”. It most often appears alongside @the_megabase, A Pan-Species Welfare State, ACX Grantees.
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- Category: Music
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 23, 2021
- Last seen: May 15, 2024
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Related Pages
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- @the_megabase (1 shared issues)
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- A Pan-Species Welfare State (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grantees (1 shared issues)
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- ACX MEETUP (1 shared issues)
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- Apimostinel (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotelian virtue theory (1 shared issues)
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- Art Deco skyscrapers (1 shared issues)
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- BIA 10-2474 (1 shared issues)
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- bioconservatives (1 shared issues)
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- biology of happiness (1 shared issues)
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- biology of superhappiness (1 shared issues)
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- biopsychiatry.com (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Older art tends to have bright colors, ornate details, realistic representations, technical skill, and be instantly visually appealing to the average person. Newer art tends to be more abstract, require less obvious skill, and have less direct appeal. Although it doesn't fit in meme format, I would carry the analogy to poetry (cf. The Fairie Queene vs. William Carlos Williams) and certain pieces of high status music (cf. Mozart vs. Philip Glass). Obviously these are broad generalizations vulnerable to cherry-picking; I'm mostly relying on your common sense here.
Recalibrating our hedonic set-point doesn't - or at least needn't - undermine critical discernment. All that's needed for the abolitionist project and its hedonistic extensions to succeed is that our ethic isn't committed to perpetuating the biology of involuntary suffering. Likewise, only a watered-down version of psychological hedonism is needed to lend the scenario sociological credibility. We can retain as much - or as little - of our existing preference architecture as we please. You can continue to prefer Shakespeare to Mills-and-Boon, Mozart to Morrissey, Picasso to Jackson Pollock while living perpetually in Seventh Heaven or beyond.