You’re a modern guy. That’s not necessarily a compliment, but it’s not necessarily a criticism. It just draws a line between you and I.
Do you embrace every part of modernity? Better ways to kill, a lessening of human empathy as the world grows more tribal? The widening of the income gap? Hysterical social media leading to the celebration of self and personal bubbles, hate groups?
Though not directed at me, I think I want to call into question the comparison.
Better modern ways to kill compared to atomic bombs? Chemical warfare? No matter which way mankind has chosen to kill, it's always awful. The technology is the method, and we decide how far it goes, and we've done TERRIBLE things in the past with stones, arrows, bombs, and drones. Some of the biggest massacres are still far far far in the past before modern warfare.
Less empathy compared to the days of segregation and slavery? We call them hate groups today, but in the past, they were just everyday people expressing their hate as the norm of the day. They weren't even considered wrong for expressing their hate. Just because people have new ways to express their hatred and vanity now doesn't mean its something new to this generation.
It's easy to say technology amplifies an appalling condition in people, but really those conditions have not changed, and we just have the tech to see them all now. We're burdened with the weight of billions of people in the world right in front of our eyes and its already overwhelming to us. Tech is just another way of coping. It won't fix anything or break anything. It is what we do with it.
Music will be no different. With new tech, some of us will make much better music, and some of us will make much worse music. Some people will consume 100% synthetic products, and some will demand authentic products made by people. If we try, we'll find out place in the mess.