It's a different approach to listening to music, Ralphie. I basically grew up in an era when people bought vinyl records of their favorite artists and bands and listened to them at home...not randomly, but quite deliberately, choosing what specific album they were going to listen to rather than selecting something at random from a list of 2500 songs. People listened to the whole album in sequence back then, from the first song to the last song, heard it as a whole work that way, and they usually had about 5 or 10 favorite albums in the collection at any given time.

This is kind of comparable to going to a folk/rock/pop concert....or even to a classical music performance...and paying attention to the same thing for a sustained period of time rather than "channel-surfing" amongst hundreds of different possibilities.

I think it leads to giving the material better attention.

I think that if you give a child 3 or 4 toys, he'll find a lot to do with them....but if you give a child 5,000 toys, he'll get bored very soon, because he doesn't spend enough time with any one of them to get much meaning out of it. His imagination has, in effect, been killed through sensory overload, just like his appetite would be killed if he ate (or tried to eat) 10 meals in a single day.

People in this society now are being affected just like that child, in my opinion. They're being (mentally) killed with sensory overload, mostly through the ever-present digital media, advertising, and mass media broadcasting and entertainment...all of which is done to make somebody very rich. That somebody is about 1 % of the population...those at the top of the social pyramid.