maudlin: "i don't think i can convince myself of the primacy of the functional when it comes to my private engagement with music"

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i don't think i can convince myself of the primacy of the functional when it comes to my private engagement with music

June 18, 2026 at 7:44 AM

like she's right to an extent and i know that's not exactly what she said but it is effectively

not false but split apart and focusing on the truth of a constituent yknow

music as augment or aid or subservient or secondary is such a debased role it continually has thrust upon it and it repugnantly takes up