In making every note function as if equal, however, Schoenberg destroyed much of what music could offer to most listeners. Socialists analogously want all people to enjoy equal economic outcomes, the leaders themselves again excepted. There is some evidence that tonal music is naturally more perceptible. Thus, strictly atonal music may be a fight against gravity. So is socialist egalitarianism.
People are naturally unequal in real life just as pitches are naturally unequal in Bach.
Unequal outcomes arise when people choose their own level of effort and when they have differing talents. American socialists believe that allowing people to earn their own outcomes is somehow choosing among them, never mind that they re choosing themselves. It can be made to sound like a hard choice to allow great disparities in income to develop. Accuse those of us who prefer liberty of being the evil ones, of wishing destruction on the poor. Schoenberg s disciples accuse those of us who don t like his music of being wrongly judgmental, too.