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I have an additional point to make about this... This is sorta like the situation of growing up sheltered in a first-world country and not having seen much outside of it. How much music have you listened to by audio-design amateurs who make shitty beats? Probably not a lot. I tend to look for more stuff by amateur hobbyists more, and I've made a lot of shitty-sounding beats of my own in the past. So you probably take it for granted that Rhythm is not that important because every successful song is already guaranteed to come with a professionally-made and polished beat to it. It's generally easier to standardize making a great rhythm than it is to make a great melody. Ultimately, the melody is where the creative potential is going to come but it will still sound lame without the right beat. You can read every music theory book there is, you're still gonna need to hire an audio engineer to make sure your beats don't sound like ass. Go ahead and try to sell an album with genius melodies but shitty production. As someone from the Philippines. We have rice with every single meal. Yeah maybe out of conformity, but point is Rice on its own still sells.

We generally sing Happy Birthday out of conformity.

Good Example..to show that you're wrong. Typically more people eat bread on its own than they eat cheese or a burger patty on its own. A cheeseburger is like a "Complete Package" where both is synthesized into a superior experience. Yes, typically people remember the meat and cheese more. My point is, you gotta have good ground level first. That's why I said it was more important, from a certain perspective, not objectively.

I have quite a bit of experience with Music Production. Big part of my Life Purpose. Here's my take... Rhythm is the baseline. In a certain sense, it's actually more important because it's sort of a fundamental ground-level you need to build up everything else in the track. In general, your Melody is going to work in tandem with the Rhythm. A different Rhythm might actually "recontectualize" the same Melody, because different notes are being emphasized. A great Melody is what you need to make a good "Genius-level" composition, but with a mediocre rhythm is still not gonna turn heads of the common viewers. You kinda need that highly-polished or professional beat to attract the majority of people, and then maybe a few with more "refined tastes" will recognize the genius of the melody underneath. But personally, I'm more of a Dance Music addict, and my mind loves to think of amazing and unique melodies for my own tracks. So I like to think I try to get the best of both worlds when it comes to Melody vs Rhythm

Damn lol

But Leo! Aren't many of these mediocre people still also struggling to survive? And maybe those that aren't are mostly living life unconsciously. How can you enjoy "Being" with that life?

Exactly why I follow you, man. My Artistic Life Purpose isn't insane or weird enough. . .yet

This video almost makes me feel like crying.

You ever play Rayman Origins? Even better imo. The sequel, Rayman Legends was disappointing though.

On a serious note, there's quite an interesting hypocrisy that he presents here. He criticizes Leo for calling people inferior for not being able to accept or understand some Absolute Truths, but that's exactly how Science works a lot of the time, especially the Hard Sciences. STEM field-types like to hold certain positions they have as "Objective" and if you disagree with it it's because you're just too stupid to understand its profundity.

You can tell that Professor Dave is the exact opposite of Leo. . . Because one of them has long flowing hair and the other. . . well. . .

Hannah Spier's video is definitely a critique from below. Reason: Who the hell uses Tiktok/Instagram-like subtitles in a supposedly "Intellectual" Youtube Essay? Obviously trying to pander to low-attention spans.

Oh we're watching them. Maybe it's the YT algorithm? It's not out of the ordinary to have sequel parts to have much less views than Part 1. Maybe a lot of normies or rationalists viewed Part 1 and got scared off like the cowards they are.

My personal list of Conformity Examples Music Only listening to Popular Singles Dressing up the “Look” of the Subculture (Hippie, Punk, Hiphop, etc.) Karaoke Gaming Online Multiplayer YouTuber Fads (Horror Games, Wacky Physics Games, etc.) Idolizing Old Games that Have Not Aged Well Career Sending out Hundreds of Applications Optimizing Resume, Over Skills and Projects Sticking to a “Safe” Unambitious Career Path YouTube Content Using Ridiculous “Censor” Words Like “Grape” or “Sewer Slide” Adding Random “Background Music” set to Low Volume Trying to Appease “The Algorithm” Philosophy Thinking Consensus Matters Even a Tiny Bit Saying you have “No Philosophy” or Philosophy Doesn’t Matter. Calling yourself any kind of “ist”. E.g. Marxist, Capatalist, Buddhist. etc.