If you can run with polytonality and orchestra-sized late modernist dissonance, Charles Ives is a really good antidote/validation for when capitalism is pulling you in multiple directions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMT_EGXQwyk

I had a roommate that would chill out listening to hardcore, that''s what Ives is like for me

He really seemed to get how everything blends into everything in the U.S., in both good and bad ways.

Like the constant demand to relax, self-improve and compete, if not all three at once

@shoutcacophony I can appreciate Ives' craft and innovation, but personally? Just not a fan.

And yes, for the record: I call those times when you're between rooms and getting two clashing audio inputs "a Charles Ives moment".