Science

Came here to make a joke about this “explaining why I’ve always been ‘baroque’” - but after reading it my new takeaway is that this is another good descriptor of why white people have no culture :

NRT maintains that rather than relying on learned expectations or prediction, musical experiences arise from the brain’s natural oscillations that sync with rhythm, melody and harmony. This resonance shapes our sense of timing, musical pleasure and the instinct to move with the beat.

Just consuming other cultures while repressing everything through joyless religiosity and wondering why they have no ‘rhythm, melody and harmony… sense of timing …and the instinct to move with the beat’