Well, it’s about time I posted, so I thought I would give some update on some of my outreach efforts I have been conducting. I was recently involved in a relationship conflict that was long-distant and had different cultural identities, gender being one of them. I am not from Mars. I am not from Venus, yet I have full awarenesses of the two because I am from EARTH, for that is where we are all born. I must admit that I tend to lean more on Venus than earth. I feel that, as human beings, we need to categorise in so many ways to find others to relate to our own kind. That is why culture exist. It is not necessarily based on geographical ancestry and ethnicity, but there are cultures devoted to how our brains are wired to do things we do, whether that would be because of nature or nurture, such as science culture.
It is important for people to realise that it is okay to believe in whatever they want, and they can express their opinions about what they do as long as it is in a positive way. Some people feel they are not decided into their religion, but they believe in symbolic representation, and they do not go around preaching their views on things based on how they identify. Some ways you can fully identify with an active, dying, or dead culture, majority or minority-wise, born–based or inclusive, is how much it interests you or how much of it you are taught while you are being raised, which is based on the things you like in general or what you are forced to do, which is determined by your and your family past, whether that would be genetic or acquisition. Remember that genes are things that we instinctively feel, and thoughts and language are learned through experiences. Even people, like Helen Keller, had thoughts before they learn sign language. Sometimes the way our brain is wired from birth, based on autism spectrum disorder models, people can fall into these extremes. There is little we can do for them at this time, and even if they are open-minded, they do not like it when other people try to lure them out of their traditions. Also, we must understand the terms clans, migration, emigration, immigration, etc and see how difficult it can be for a lot of us based on these characteristics. However, in a lot of Eastern cultures and Western Native-American culture, etc, they can be hard to learn because many of their fundamental principles were set thousands of years ago. They are mostly ignorant about the advances in science and technology, about the current issues we have in Western society, and they do not know how to deal with people who have life-long conditions. However, I feel that people are condemning themselves to being slaves within their own culture. I feel that we should do things based on how we feel is right and wrong, not listen to rules set by superstitious leaders. How does cultural assimilation and brainwashing differ? It is okay to love your culture, but remember that it is how you behave that will directly impact those around you. Language is what we learn so we can express the feelings we acquired based on our genes. For instance, sometimes I feel I was born in the wrong time period, the wrong place, and things like that, yet I know I want to simplify some aspects of life and advance others. Like simplifying music and advancing art.
Here is some of what I believe based on the hard and soft sciences. I believe there is a reason why I am the way I am today. It was because I am the kind of bookish person who reads anything that appeals to me. I am investigative, wanting to know how and why things happen the way they do, and how they came to be. I have researched constantly over the last years when it seems that a few years ago I have read things from history, and when I was back in school, the teacher’s lecture were hard to interpret, but when I learned it kinaesthetically it made a lot more sense. I also read modern young adult novels, and it helped me learn about teenage gossip that I could never take part of because of my sensory disabilities. I am sort of like Ray Charles, Beethoven and maybe a famous scientist all in one.
Indeed the way I present my linguistic trends may be associated with some people in the American English language, and people like me cannot socialize with the mainstream crowd because of the many reasons I explained above, yet many are quite ignorant and criticize us because of our lack in partaking of with our peers. However, when we do find a culture that we feel akin to, we automatically open up and start sounding like those who like to talk, but our atmosphere is a lot different because we are not worried about what we look like to gain popularity (common in popular culture).
Ever since the experimentation with technology in the 1950’s to produce electronic tones and noise after success with recording acoustic sounds on a wax cylinder, vinyl record, , the cassette, the CD, and now digitally, the same was happening for the instruments known as synthesisers. Many were terrible at producing the sounds that we dreamed of hearing. We want to hear that rich dark tones of instruments instead of the bright and harsh sounds we are forced to hear. And we also like deep resonance that angles out from all sides instead of having it come from one speaker or through headphones into your ears. The question is why? Why did we have to experiment with such things? That is one of the most difficult things to understand. When people rebel against certain standards, they get noticed by society and they draw attention to themselves. People are now trying to sample out recordings of real instruments and make them sound like the real thing, but it is not the same thing as really playing the instrument. Now, these instincts, tastes and preferences may be transferred from genes. For example, half of my family is Italian. I do not know if that is associated with their culture, but what I learned is that nature (innate) is how and what we feel, and nurture (learning) is what we think based on what and how we feel. For instance, I was used to eating very slowly, and this can be related to the Itallians because they eat very slowly when they have guests, or, it might just be a blind thing. That is why the majority are thin. They are very big on nativity scenes, and this might explain why music comes naturally to me, even though neither side of my family was musically-inclined. How can genetic markings determine your ancestry? Many scientists argue over this. Is there something relating to the tuning standards over time regarding one’s vocal range?
Eventually, as the labeling of composers to artists changed to albums and singles, the music started getting more popular because of its lack in compositional complexity. It was sort of like how Jazz music was almost always improvised. The so-called Rock-and-roll music did have a style known as the verse, chorus and bridge. A historian would interpret that as the ABA trinary I think is how it is referred to.
After that, the music did not start following sequences because many were singled out over time, and people started categorising the music based on its rhythmic patterns, on its form, and many other things. As technology advanced from analogue to digital, something known as auto-pitch correction was experimented with, which allowed non-singers to sound like a pro. This, as you might expect, gained wide popularity because you could do a lot more experimentation. That is the major factor that we as humans cannot seem to shake off is how wide we can experiment. The sky’s the limit.
These forms of experimentation can get so addicting that it literally wires our brains despite the consequences it will have on our way of thinking and feeling towards ourselves and others in whatever society we are in. Is there a way to still appreciate those songs but not have them sound so electronic either in instrumentation or vocalisation? Some studies show that crimes can be altered by playing music that would lower down flight-and-flight hormones and stimulate rest-and-repair hormones. This makes me wonder, how were crimes committed in the past? Were they more focused instead of random? What made them happen? Lack of nutrition, drugs?