Author: Sum Randumb D00d
Date: 2017-04-01 21:53
I've been noticing catastrophically more mental illness and Anti-Social Personality Disorder in professional musicians in the last 15 or 20 years.
100 years ago, musicians were fairly normal members of the community, like doctors or lawyers or carpenters or farmers.
But mass-production of music [wax cylinders, 78s, LPs, cassettes, CDs, MP3s, radio, television, live-streaming] has reduced professional musicianship to something of an hermitage for the unbalanced.
In particular, mass-production of music has decimated the free market economy in the industry, with most of these orchestras now being rigidly autocratic government bureaucracies.
And the very worst personalities always seek out lifetime sinecures in the bureaucracies.
Point being that, behind the scenes, many of these lunatics are at lunging at each others' throats.
And that doesn't even begin to address the problem of the millenial snowflakes who have to run off to their shrinks for an increase in their SSRI prescriptions every time they break a fingernail.
God knows you don't want to grant lifetime tenure to one of those basketcases.
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