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I do not care if any one believes me to be intelligent or not. I get a lot out of music but I do not listen to it frequently, though I do play an instrument often. Some times in the car or at home I will get a hankering to listen to some song or other but mostly it rarely occurs to me to put music on. When I am engrossed in some task or other I usually have a lot going on in my head and putting music on seems like it would be excessive and it does not occur to me to do so.
That said, the social meaning of music today is very different today with 24 hour streaming of music seemingly made by machines, than say before the invention of the phonograph, where to experience music you had to go some where to see human beings contrive concordant sounds out of some variety of implements. The many great and brilliant men of yesteryear who enjoyed the opera and concerts I do not think we can fairly call stupid. However, music today is largely purely narcotic in nature, and as easy to access as fentanyl a slow drip of distraction whose enjoyment I can see as correlating with being absentminded generally. When anything is either common or easily acquired or both it is always liable to portend some ugliness or other.
