Intensity... Depth, passion... I think we are all here for same reason.
Progressive music is more than a style, I agree with all your comments about it. Prog can feed all styles ! And all styles feed prog
! In fact, prog is just transcendent in music as it is for us transcendental.
What we can't understand at this point is why the hell some people are not able to open themselves to that intensity, at least just a little. Too long tracks ? Too complex tracks maybe ? There are short and simple prog tracks too...
I personnally think the answer is NOT in music. It is a biologic and psychological phenomena (omg I need to check dictionnary). Humans don't want to make efforts and their efforts are done to make less efforts, or take pleasure, or take more pleasure. There is not only that fact, but we can't list them without entering a very complicate thread and maybe boring (yeah that's it, don't want to write/read posts like that right now, I'm human...). Well, there is one thing important, way more important than we often think : Mediatic Pollution. And particullary, ears pollutions. A simple (and bad) song to promote corn-flakes or grassplot's health product (just ask a french if he knows Fertiligene...) can STAY IN YOUR MIND FOR HOURS SOMETIMES DAYS. Again it is not enough to explain but this thing is a big part of the problem since people are meeting them in compact communities...
And how being more open to others when we are deeply link to communities ? So how being "prog" like that ? Intensity often express himself out of communities... The only choice you have is being a part of a community related to all other communities... Prog one
(at least in music of course). The problem is that if you want to go out of it and join another, you need to make efforts.
Listening to Madonna ask no effort (gives no pleasure and for me gives also nausea but that's not the point). Of course for some people it is easier. Elric has no problem, his father had already make an effort
