Emotional Beings

I’ve just had an interesting discussion with one of my sons about the use of music as a tool to influence us emotionally in regard to this, that, or the other. The subject in question happened to be the promotion of vegan-ism in a video highlighting the cruelty of many animal farming practises. My son is a vegan.

Clearly music does impact the emotions. My own take on this, is that I prefer for music not to be used to support subjects that are about challenging and/or contentious subjects. We are Emotional Beings, but I think we need to make every effort to stand aside from those emotions when we enter the realm of “truth seeking”.

That’s what I argued for anyway. But it’s really just a personal preference, born out of my days in the religious world, in which music was often used to move people towards faith and to precipitate certain actions. Beliefs and actions which I now think very differently about.

But if anything highlights how irrational we often are, it is the power that music can have over our emotions and thought processes.

Music has great power. Like anything, it can be abused or misused.