Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't want to behave like that.
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.
In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in the north; the Italians would behave like Germans. They didn't. Instead, northern Europe fell into subsidizing southern Europe's excess consumption, that is, its current account deficits.