He mentions among other more important things, re totalitarianism, that Mao had banned Western classical music.
He says that these events have an even greater world historical significance, words to that effect....
He does not utter their real significance, in my view, at that point, the civilizational character of the situation. He sounds very much like a Francis Fukuyama Hegelian there......world historical, etc., etc.
In view of the virtual take over, now, of Western classical music, and much of Western entertainment companies in general, by Asians, I cannot say that that, Mao's ban, was that bad a thing for him to have done, and wish that the spirit of insular musical nationalism had remained strong in China, and the rest of Asia, really.
The recent influence of the Asian market on the American film industry, for instance, has been culturally and spiritually catastrophic for what little is now left of the West.
Ditto Japan, somewhat earlier, from the late 1940s really. The disastrous and ubiquitous influence of Suzuki Music here is the classic example of that, in the classical string music context.
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