Joe Biden wants to ban guns as he thinks that the easy availability of guns is the culprit for the Texas school shootings. But in my humble opinion, he is missing the underlying deeper reason.Banning guns in America is like banning porn in India. It's like trying to solve cancer by putting a bandage on it.This is nothing new for America. In reality, we are slowly moving towards a newer kind of ideology known as nihilism. And nihilism is an ideology as it has an idea that places the idea of "Nothing matters" on top of all other values.

A take on the recent Texas school Shootout

Nietzsche said "GOD is dead and we have killed him" in his book The Gay Science and I think the death of God here resembles the devaluation of all higher values which were a by-product of the belief structure which itself is dying as the central figure withholding it is no more believable; where there are no higher values to strive towards one strives towards the thought "everything is temporary" and one is permitted to shoot their own classmates without any restraint in the consciousness. Other Humans beings are reduced to mere "OTHERS". Nihilism is the future.

"God is Dead"

Nihilism is the product of a society that fails to create anything beautiful out of solitude. An economic ecosystem that fails to create human beings who can not only endure loneliness but also use it to beautify and transcend even their most "lower feelings" rather than degenerate with their "lower feeling". Lower feelings like the feeling of lust, want for violence, disgust, intence envy, etc..

The Problem and its solution

The American society is truly a materialistic society. The values provided by Ayn rand have been taken at face value in the absence of a deeper meaning. While Emerson and Thoreau have been completely forgotten.

The materialization of the American Society 

I think my ideas here depict an underlying problem that we are missing out on completely.

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"Without music life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche. Music usually provides us with the sense of being a Napolean of our own life, whose every task reeks of "grandiose". The grandiose task in modern-day life being exercising, taking a metro ride home, doing groceries, etc. These tasks have one thing in common. They all provide a blank screen for our thoughts to be projected onto. The music flows into the theaters of the mind and floods it and flooded it should be from time to time.&nbsp; However, the highest utility of music is in the fact that it has the power to beautify boredom too.

Music as a necessity of a healthy life

Monotonous chores are the necessary evil of Human society. A myriad of desk-level jobs require the employee to be proficient with "Cntrl C + Cntrl V". Students usually find themselves practicing the same questions again and again, going through the ever-rotating pages again and again. One would have said "to hell with it and to hell with civilization" a long time ago if one didn't have the burden of the truth that these monotonous chores keep this anthill colony sustaining. Tediousness is most of life as it creates order in life as without order one is not prepared to take a step on chaos.

"The Tedious" as a necessity of a healthy life

There are no words seductive enough to explain the serenity found in an hour of doing something which doesn't demand much mental taxation while listening to a calm piece.&nbsp; The chords of the soul are strung in a manner that numbs the sense which finds "Tediousness" unbearable.&nbsp;&nbsp; Chopin and Beethoven might be long dead, but their music often fills life in the dead.

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Music: A Transcendence of "The Tedious" into Serenity

A common piece of advice is that one should indulge in things moderately. Hence one should do things diplomatically and walk the middle path as the world isn't "two plus two equals four" but rather there is an acceptable open window for "two plus two equals five or six". But what exactly is the "Middle Path", what could be considered a nonradical solution to things, is it a ratio of two or more different things done in proportion? And if so what is that proportion? Is it 3:7 or is it 1:1:1? Maybe it's our feeling of radicalness toward things that should be put on trial and whipped for answers

Finding the Middle Path

The best place to start is by placing a question mark on ourselves or to place it more clearly- "To place a question mark on our feelings- to ask why do we feel what we feel". This is where the treasure trove lies, in ourselves. Whatever one feels, one should look at it first and foremost from a perspective of indifference, not as something which is good or evil. When one thinks like this, they don't see a world painted with black or white shade. The birth of an understanding that Good and evil aren't something opposite of each other, but rather they are two different points on the same scale

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Music: A Transcendence of "The Tedious" into Serenity

Himanshu Jaiswal on Aug 22

Himanshu Jaiswal