And then I realised what the best waltzes were making a statement for.
The best waltzes are making statements about how a wonderful life has regularity in it. The fact that it is played by orchestra is a statement about how everyone has their role to play in the big picture, that it's about how well you play the role.
It is a very classical, mechanistic view of society working like clockwork.
In a world full of chaos and unintended consequences, waltzes are an invitation to suspended disbelief, to believe in a deterministic universe as people once did.
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