Is the sea shanty stuff is just a passing fancy or a marker of a deeper mood, definitely comfort food type vibes in a stormy zeitgeist. Domestic cozy in a gale 
Have there been other musical memes?
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Now that I think of it, a lot of music from fraught, uncertain contexts where everything is kinda chronically shitty all around but you have to live with it because there’s no exit has this kind of strongly rhythmic, bluesy energy to it
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Whereas music from comfy safe and stable modern milieus is high dissonance and the opposite of comforting. Various descendants of rock.
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Sea shanty theorem: SNR(environment) + SNR(working music) = constant.
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david graeber noted that egalitarian societies tend to be wracked with immense psychic conflictpic.twitter.com/exZ1sdEY4f
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