A friend of mine gave me his feedback regarding this post:" How is my daughter supposed to learn how to play the piano if I don't teach her? The discussion also makes a lot of assumptions about what is natural...is everything to be judged by how far removed it is from some supposed "state of nature"? What "music" was I, as a child, "naturally" attuned to? Western music? I do agree that we tend to create new problems when solving others, or that we deliberately create problems in order to sell solutions to them, and that the idea of material progress is inherently unsustainable; but to respond by promoting some sort of monastic abandonment of any man-made improvement to the human condition isn't realistic either -- except as maybe a basis for individuals, not for society as a whole. In my opinion."