"What else is there to do? Watch television? Music is everything!!"

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Unfortunately, it is precisely those who shouldn't listen to music who constitute the majority of its most influential critics. These people, the snarling dogs who enforce mediocrity through their vehemence, sneering, and know-it-all pretensions, resent music because to them it is an unfathomable, inscrutable riddle. They want to speak about it, hold forth on it, determine its future like the parched schoolteacher who crushes the spirit of the child because he too was crushed so long ago. It's important to identify "music for people who shouldn't listen to music" and separate it into a different camp; it is indeed another "thing." It should occupy a space for so-called music which isn't music at all - in the same manner that television news isn't news and fast food isn't food. This new genre would be for people who don't like music at all, but are gleaning some sort of identification through it.