“-all music must leap out of the wall and shake the listener
to his very intestines. Only then you consider music ‘effective.’ But on whom
are such effects achieved? On those whom a noble artist should never impress:
on the mass, on the immature, on the blasé, on the sick, on the idiots, on Wagnerians!”
(NcW 667-2).
I thought of this video immediately and it remains on my
mind while reading Nietzsche’s admonition of Wagner and his cruel intentions of
waging war on our nerves and sensibilities. There is something so helpless in
this baby - simply reacting to the emotion of this song – without any power
over it whatsoever. This baby represents the masses, the Wagnerians, the “immature”
“idiots” as Nietzsche calls them, who are assaulted by Wagner’s music and left
exhausted.
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