Plato’s Public Service Announcement

I’m writing today to warn the public of a dangerous and dissolute musician, Nina Simore, specifically about her song “Sinnerman.” Music has a proper time and place but there is no place for corrupt music in this society. Jazz is a vile tool used by artists to wallow in emotion; its influence is leading our youth to irrational emotion based thought. Her discordant tones set the soul even further away from the harmony that can be achieved through other worthy rational artists like Bach.  He offers the hearer order, logical applied mathematics, repetition, patterns, and every note influencing, creating, and organizing harmony in the mind. As I have said before, “imitations are ruinous to the understanding of the hearer and that the knowledge of their true nature is the only antidote to them,” (30 Philosophies of Art and Beauty) Nina Simore is the poisoning the carefully trained minds of our impressionable young. If we, as a society, wish to avoid the vulnerability susceptible to the deceptions and manipulations of tyrants (3Aesthetics- -Plato’s Aesthetics) we cannot let the source of our immortality be corrupted by disharmonious influences. Stop your children, your students, and your legacy, from corroding their rational facilities. We cannot allow the spontaneity and emotional wallowing shamefully displayed in this piece to dominate over logical, pure, thought that will lead us to the true Forms merely reflected, copied and distorted in art and mimicked in music.