Once again, I feel it is important to chime in here.

Classical music was never popular. Do you realize that, for example, Beethoven only held 11 public concerts? The vast majority of people in the classical era went to the bar to hear pub music, culturally similar to going to an ACDC cover band concert (no offense meant, btw).

We've been fooled into thinking that art music (or whatever you prefer to call it) long passed it's golden age, and we're all just a bunch of fuddy duddies randomly striking at new and avante garde. It's always been a small amount of people interested in "new" music - ALWAYS! There have been a few populist composers that were hailed as great, especially during the late romantic period, but in general, it's never been widely accepted by the masses.

To infer that it's the artists job to please people is to be non-artistic. It doesn't mean that you're going to like it, but as a composer - we don't care anyway. We're just trying to get ideas out of our heads. That's usually about it.

This article is idiotic. As I recall, nobody liked Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. A critic described it as "a writhing serpent which could not and would not die". A lot of people hated Mozart in his day because they thought his music had too many notes. And many people would just flip the heck out on Bach because of his "intolerable dissonances".

I'm not saying there's not unlistenable music currently being composed, and there has certainly been some stretches over the past 100 years or so. But some demagogue comes out and says "We have a scientific explanation for why this music isn't good" and we're supposed to accept it? Just shut up and crawl back down your idiot hole.

Yeah, I was just thinking the broad was dumb.

And here's another episode of "Fights You Won't Win".

Could we, for humors sake, call it a zedonkadonk?!

It's because we're stupid and we will pretty much believe anything that someone spews at us without thinking. That's why.

Yeah, this guy has his head up his evolutionary biological butt.

Hey don't blame them or call them stupid! It's just their genes! Because, you know, humans are completely incapable of reasoning and having thought processes if their evolutionary behavior dictates otherwise!!!

I recently moved to Idaho, and am currently working at a grocery store. About 1/3 of the transactions I handle are paid for with EBT cards, and it would make you just damn sick to know how much junk food goes into the cart. Then they use their cash to buy alcohol. Many of these people have 2-3 kids in tow. They keep spitting them out because they know that the government is going to keep paying for them to be morons.

Not in any way shape or form neat, cool, interesting. This is just nasty. And I'm down with experimental art. But no no no no no!

I should say that those people in my family are diagnosed, so I have reason to believe that my problems are likely related.

SuperCrap,
I am one of those sufferers who have gone without getting the diagnosis. My grandmother on my mothers side, along with my aunt and uncle. If I eat gluten-containing foods, I feel as though I am slowly dying. I am sick for at least a week and I have all sorts of terrible, terrible symptoms. I don't need a test to tell me I shouldn't eat it, as I feel freaking great when I don't.
Gluten intolerance is actually more widespread than your ass-hat moronic brain would be able to comprehend. Even though they may not be Celiac, there are many who are intolerant to wheat/gluten - possibly 1 out of 3 people in America. So before you go around tromping and proclaiming your intellectual superiority to the "quacks, hucksters, dimwits, and hypocondriacs", maybe you should educate yourself a little bit more.

We be gettin' dumber.

Stupid us. Stupid, stupid us. I know there will be a bunch of people getting on here to talk about the glories of science. But this is seriously dumb.

To all of the robot-frightened folks: this is nothing a 12-gauge shotgun can't settle.

So basically if we weren't a bunch of lazy assholes we'd be okay? Gee thanks for the answer!

Kryptonian, quit being a vicious little hater.