The difference being a real instrument has cultural value built up over centuries, and playing an instrument continues a human tradition that has existed since pre-history.
Guitar hero is fun, but it was always a cheap imitation of being a real musician. Like trannyism, it tricks your brain into thinking you are something you are not to satisfy a fantasy. On its own, there's nothing wrong with this as long as you know it's escapism.
The point where it becomes sad is when you can't escape the fantasy, deciding that dedicating your life to this cheap imitation is worth more than the real thing.
Learn to play a guitar, and by proxy, you can learn to play just about any conventionally-designed guitar, as well as opening the door to a wider variety of stringed instruments. It's like learning to paint or driving stick. Skills you don't need to live, but can make your life easier and can give you more vocational options in the future should you decide to pursue it as a career.
The difference being a real instrument has cultural value built up over centuries
So good because your grandpa did it, exactly.
My point isn't that guitar isn't a great thing to do. Its to breakdown what makes it so special that it escapes the scrutiny of guy's like Walsh who have very harsh opinions on anyone's time spent that isn't "dance for women, make money, be a stereotype."
And the only difference is that its older, so it holds more "conservative value" than that new thing kids do that Walsh doesn't understand.
To use a different set of examples. Building and painting little plastic Gundam or 40k models would probably be considered stupid, but building and painting little plastic car models would be fine. And building watches (a lot of the same skills) would be a culturally valuable hobby from centuries ago.
Point is there is no objective metric at play, only subjective values. And even those are unevenly applied by guys like him. But he parades it as undeniable facts of the universe that everyone must agree with. Playing guitar is a more valuable hobby to have, but people only treat it so because they think its cool despite how much of a waste of time it is for 90% of the people doing it, while attacking wastes of time like the guy with the plastic garbage.
Guitar hero is fun, but it was always a cheap imitation of being a real musician
Or it was just a video game people played for fun, without the need to self insert themselves.
Like trannyism, it tricks your brain into thinking you are something you are not to satisfy a fantasy.
99% of people don't obsess over GH nor think it makes you a real guitar player. Most of us just think "heh, I get to play Cult of Personality as Slash. Cool!"
Just like playing Arkham City doesn't make us think we're really Batman, we just like to pretend to be Batman for a little while.
The difference being a real instrument has cultural value built up over centuries, and playing an instrument continues a human tradition that has existed since pre-history.
Guitar hero is fun, but it was always a cheap imitation of being a real musician. Like trannyism, it tricks your brain into thinking you are something you are not to satisfy a fantasy. On its own, there's nothing wrong with this as long as you know it's escapism.
The point where it becomes sad is when you can't escape the fantasy, deciding that dedicating your life to this cheap imitation is worth more than the real thing.
This is exactly it right here.
Learn to play a guitar, and by proxy, you can learn to play just about any conventionally-designed guitar, as well as opening the door to a wider variety of stringed instruments. It's like learning to paint or driving stick. Skills you don't need to live, but can make your life easier and can give you more vocational options in the future should you decide to pursue it as a career.
So good because your grandpa did it, exactly.
My point isn't that guitar isn't a great thing to do. Its to breakdown what makes it so special that it escapes the scrutiny of guy's like Walsh who have very harsh opinions on anyone's time spent that isn't "dance for women, make money, be a stereotype."
And the only difference is that its older, so it holds more "conservative value" than that new thing kids do that Walsh doesn't understand.
To use a different set of examples. Building and painting little plastic Gundam or 40k models would probably be considered stupid, but building and painting little plastic car models would be fine. And building watches (a lot of the same skills) would be a culturally valuable hobby from centuries ago.
Point is there is no objective metric at play, only subjective values. And even those are unevenly applied by guys like him. But he parades it as undeniable facts of the universe that everyone must agree with. Playing guitar is a more valuable hobby to have, but people only treat it so because they think its cool despite how much of a waste of time it is for 90% of the people doing it, while attacking wastes of time like the guy with the plastic garbage.
Or it was just a video game people played for fun, without the need to self insert themselves.
99% of people don't obsess over GH nor think it makes you a real guitar player. Most of us just think "heh, I get to play Cult of Personality as Slash. Cool!"
Just like playing Arkham City doesn't make us think we're really Batman, we just like to pretend to be Batman for a little while.