The Madness of Crowds

I bought my wife, for her birthday, two insanely expensive tickets (unfortunately, one for me) to the Toronto tour stop of the popular rock group Coldplay. We just attended this concert a few weeks ago (July 8), and it was quite a spectacle. I am a musician by birth and intensive life-long training, so I clearly understand these events are not at all about the “music” but instead are celebrity-worship displays of mass insanity. Music is something that is discerned by the senses (hearing), and during these events, the experience no longer fits the accepted definition of music when it is so loud that aural discernment is impossible. This is not an opinion, but a biological fact.