The Destruction of Culture

Music is an artifact that justifies war but destroys culture. Some artists encourage violence through the lyrics they compose. One of the ways they continue carrying on this underlying theme of violence is to mask their songs with a catchy beat that listeners can enjoy, if not completely understand. As this combination of lyrics and music becomes successful and slowly makes its way into mainstream culture, it sets a standard for what upcoming tracks need to sound like in order to become popular and make money, which is ultimately what companies look for in their decision of which music to put out. As a result, we see a cycle of consumers blindly buying meaningless beats for the sake of their own superficial pleasures and producers constantly trying to meet them. 

Like war, music can also be a perversion of human desire. We pursue certain musicians for reasons beyond the sphere of logic and morality to breed more nonsensical music whose justifications have more to do with our individual, selfish desires than the benefit of humanity as a whole.