Reflection on music, texted to Steph, October 2017

I’ve just been reading dystopias and quote unquote postmodern lit and Naomi Klein too much

wigs me out about the world ending itself while watching ads in 10K 4D IMAX

that’s why music is still so good to me

there’s so much that’s systematic and commercial and patriarchal and competitive and perverse surrounding it

but when I’m listening

it is its own world

expressive and reflective of our own

but somehow disparate and self-contained

like being in the mountains