it's almost as if this is, on a highly sped up time frame, a process similar to that which yields stable traditions in different regionall forms of artistic rep

it's almost as if this is, on a highly sped up time frame, a process similar to that which yields stable traditions in different regionall forms of artistic representation, but without the kind of natural propagation boundaries that would normally contain the spread of a tradition to within a narrow geographical and cultural region. We, by which I mean the Western world as influenced by pop music in the era of widespread mass communication, are settling on a common collective cultural music motif, and this cannot help but be a bit of a race to the complexity floor in order for it to be sufficiently widespread and stabilized.