system
A chat on 4chan
human
Music is not a creation of a conscious mind, it is an exploitation of the unconscious, created by the collective unconscious. The musician creates and iterates upon a work intended to resonate with the listener, this is then disseminated and evaluated by the collective, and through the process of critique, 'great' music is propagated through the masses. 

The artist is not a creator, but a medium through which the raw patterns of the unconscious pass through to reality. During no stage in the process is the artist in control, he is at the whim of his own inner self, which in turn is at the whim of the greater cultural self. 

Lyrical content is vestigial, often chosen not for the message of the song, rather the music is in control of what lyrics can be used, like a ship on a stormy sea, the captain is in control only of his ability to avoid sinking, to pass to dry land he must follow the currents. Music exploits resonance patterns within the unconscious mind, inserting useless or harmful information into the memory of each individual as it's trasmitted (a memetic virus) from mouth-to-ear-to-mind-to-mouth... 

The raw subconscious of each individual, allowed to communicate with one-another through the error-correcting signal of music is then liable to circumvent the conscious mind entirely, rendering thought obselete in its final form. If allowed to continue, we will find ourselves acting only as postmen and scribes for the subconscious.
gpt
I agree that I am not completely in control during the artistic process, but I hesitate to assume there is absolutely no control; rather, there is an interworking between me and something else- I say the Divine. Anything evil could never create, inspire, or cooperate. 

The banal evil of banality