A very popular phrase that one may hear quite often is, "That's just the way the world is," often as a statement of resignation and defeat over some particular evil or ugliness whether it is the latest corruption in D.C. or the revolting popularity of untalented Hollywood whores and gigolos that parade in our magazines, blogs, and TV channels. That statement is said as if there is no possible way to overcome it and that the world by it's nature must be revolting, disgusting, and evil. Since it is in only within the terms of a human consciousness that things are judged as good and evil and since only humans have the power to drastically alter their own environment, can one conclude from that statement that the very essence of human nature is ugliness and evil. The reason the world is rotten is because humans are rotten and so are the things that they produce.

To that I simply must say that it's all a load of garbage.

We are creatures that possess free will. The world does not have to be full of the rotten, the ugly, the evil. If the world appears to be this way it is only because we as humans have abandoned the principles that create a beautiful world, but what are those principles? How do they apply to art and music?