Panicking Over Music—Our Oldest Tradition?

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Jordan

[Orchestral overture]

Imagine a new technology drops today, right?

And the government immediately moves to ban it.

They claim it’s going to fundamentally corrupt the youth and cause the absolute collapse of the state.

You’d probably think it was, I don’t know, a biological weapon.

Or maybe some kind of unregulated neuroimplant.

Alex

Exactly.

But if you rewind to about 380 BCE, Plato was making that exact argument about a new type of flute.

It is just a stunning historical reality.