I think Kay is a genius, but this is a bad example of what he’s trying to say. I can’t imagine a culture that’s producing moving music but isn’t fascinated with

I think Kay is a genius, but this is a bad example of what he’s trying to say. I can’t imagine a culture that’s producing moving music but isn’t fascinated with the epiphenomena of music. Kay comes off as a “get off my lawn” old guy, which is a pity. I guess this is a hard kind of thing to evaluate in one’s own time and place. We see history and other cultures in a kind of compressed view, without their everyday foibles and distractions. Whatever is familiar to the viewer necessarily seems more obsessed with the mundane.