Be a theorylet

Question implies I'm listening to nothing, living in a vacuum. Absolute uniqueness is useless because music is a spectator sport. True uniqueness tends to only have spectacle value.
Disregarding implication embedded in the question, listening to a wide variety of music has greater utility than understanding "by the book" musical theory. A parallel reason why would be: If you had raw statistics from which laws of physics were derived + the understanding of how to reason from first principles, you would be more likely to discover new pathways of logic than those bound by a set-in-stone mode of understanding

>see human psychology + """"ideology""""
If there is an external mode of understanding you subscribe to, it's easier to use that non-selforiginated thing than something you have to grind to hash out yourself.

The thing is that your arguments imply that theory is "set in stone". I understand the process of development of theory like a chicken vs. egg thing. Which came first, the music or the theory that explains it? When new paths of music are discovered will theory be able to be developed to explain them? Certainly.

"Individuals reach peaks, groups repeat speech."
Agreed, set in stone was shit wording lmao I'm with you completely on the fact that theory will be able to explain new phenomena.
My reason for not learning theory is because you cannot explain what you do not understand or know exists. All sciences are incomplete (I say this because I think of theory as a "science of music") and if you have the capacity/time to build from ground zero, you can reach where current understandings are. If you get to that point on your own, you might form a more perfect bedrock than the group consensus did. Your personal bedrock, or just momentum of development, could lead to getting ahead of the pack and discovering new things for theory to dissect & explain.
>fuck holier than thou
>one informs the other
blah blah
Because this is Yas Forums, fuck you, the music came first. The first nigga to start a fire didn't get the physics of it, first player of a scale just thought it was lit

Nvm, don't even have to progress to where things are. There are probably countless unknown pockets of musical logic on the way to here

all you gotta do is sing about relationships and sex

The fact that I have never in my entire life ever heard a single person who learned theory say that they regret it or wish they hadn't tells me everything I need to know. Anti theory people are just lazy and don't want to put the effort into learning theory

*most anti theory people
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You can understand theory while also acknowledging how it can handicap one's creativity.

I actually saw a post like that today, on Yas Forums. I've seen others say how it just ruined enjoying music for them.