by G.W. Rees
Music... Nothing conveys spirit in a more succinct manner than this sonically-mystic entity which forms an essential pillar of even the most savage of the world's cultures, for good or for ill. Far from being an innocuous substance for leisurely consumption, music is a force whose audible raw materials have immense potential either to degrade or elevate the character of Man, and today it–more often than not–functions as a sonic Trojan Horse, inconspicuously making its way into the minds of men while simultaneously, albeit subtly, releasing destruction upon his being. These notions of music's potentially corrosive effects are wholly anachronistic in our age of flaccid Liberalism; overlooked as well as scoffed at by common men and cultural commissars alike.
