The world today

1. Have you ever wondered what is happening to music nowadays?

Well, classical music being is being weaponised: "“[D]espite a few assertive, late-Romantic exceptions like Mussorgsky and Rachmaninoff,” notes critic Scott Timberg, “the music used to scatter hoodlums is pre-Romantic, by Baroque or Classical-era composers such as Vivaldi or Mozart.”" And it's being ruined in other ways too - see the link. Meanwhile, pop[ular] music is unimportant.

Of course, there is that kind of music that is associated with gangs. But the more you look into it, the more interesting it gets. I tried investigating Stormzy. The music is better than I thought it would be. But also more varied: it turns out he has written a hymn, which he performed at a funeral. Remember that the world is always bigger and more complicated than you think.

2. This is how you prevent war nowadays, with a video and Donald Trump telling you to "Think of it from the real estate perspective".

3. Teenage relationships nowadays: only in America? Only in the Park Slope white-parent community? I find it hard to imagine that kind of behaviour becoming widespread, but then I am terribly old and set in my ways. Some completely different - but also very weird - American young person sexual behaviour is here: "Is it possible for two people to simultaneously sexually assault each other? ... The one important thing you need to know about the case is that according to the lawsuit, a woman has been indefinitely suspended from college because she let a man touch her". (I have left the final word out of that quotation, but without changing the meaning.)