Originally Posted by
thehotelambush
What do you mean by "benefit"? Sure, music has plenty of benefits, but they are not the kind of thing that Te instinctively values.
One would be surprised. I think this is both right in a way, and wrong in another. Remember that it isn't functions that value things. It's people. And surely there are people who, influenced by their own
, think "who cares about music? Just a bunch of people with smiley faces going 'hmm hmm hmm.' I never understood it. Now engineering...that's what's important." I know people like that, who've said almost the exact same thing, and they probably have been types with
.
But I also know people who are very much into music and who also have
. Usually, these people appreciate intellectually-stimulating composers like Stravinsky, or if their tastes are pre-20th century perhaps Mendelssohn, Handel, etc.; and they may devalue composers like Tchaikovsky and Chopin (but not always).
The key here is that in the classical music world, people appreciate music for more than any one type. It's hard, I think, for people who aren't that much into music or classical music in particular to understand; each person may have a conception that music has a fairly limited role...to relax, to dance to, to socialize to, etc.
But actually, music involves all the functions of the Socion. Think of it more like literature: What different people get out of it may be very diverse.